 By comparing my work afterwards with the original, I discovered many faults and amended them; but I sometimes had the pleasure of fancying that, in certain particulars of small import, I had been lucky enough to improve the method or the language, and...  Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions - Page 19by Edward Everett - 1850Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Prout Newcombe - 1851 - 398 pages
...thoughts. " By comparing my work with the original, I discovered many faults and corrected them ; but 1 sometimes had the pleasure to fancy that in certain...consequence I had been fortunate enough to improve the language. This encouraged me to think l might come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was... | |
 | Theodore Alois Buckley - Biography - 1853 - 446 pages
...was to teach me method in the arrangement of the thoughts. By comparing my work with the original, I discovered many faults, and corrected them ; but I sometimes had the pleasureto fancy that in particulars of small consequence I had been fortunate enough to improve the... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 pages
...was to teach me method in the arrangement of the thoughts. By comparing my work with the original, I discovered many faults, and corrected them ; but I sometimes had the pleasure fo fancy, that, in certain particulars of small consequence, I had been fortunate enough to improve... | |
 | 1856 - 422 pages
...This was to teach me method in the arrangement of my thoughts. By comparing my work with the original, I discovered many faults and corrected them ยก but...enough to improve the method or the language ; and this eneournged me to think that I might, in time, come to be a tolerable English i writer, of which I was... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Horatio Hastings Weld - 1856 - 584 pages
...original, I discovered many faults and corrected them; but I sometimes had the pleasure to fancy that, in particulars of small consequence, I had been fortunate...language, and this encouraged me to think that I might in dene come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious. The time I allotted... | |
 | William O. Blake - Biography - 1856 - 1124 pages
...thoughts. Bj comparing my works with the original, I discovered many faults, and corrected them ; but sometimes had the pleasure to fancy that, in certain...I had been fortunate enough to improve the method of the language ; and this encouraged me to think that I might, in time, come to be a tolerable English... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1856 - 670 pages
...was to teach me method in the arrangement of the thoughts. By comparing my work with the original, I discovered many faults, and corrected them; but...that, in certain particulars of small consequence, 1 had been fortunate enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - Printers - 1856 - 654 pages
...was to teach me method in the arrangement of the thoughts. By comparing my work with the original, I discovered many faults, and corrected them ; but...that, in certain particulars of small consequence, 1 had been fortunate enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think,... | |
 | Henry Howe - Technology & Engineering - 1858 - 524 pages
...was to teach me method in the arrangement of the thoughts. By comparing my work with the original, I discovered many faults, and corrected them ; but...the method or the language ; and this encouraged me Ii think that I might, in time, come to be a tolerable English writeri of which I was extremely ambitious."... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - Statesmen - 1859 - 710 pages
...was to teach me method in the arrangement of the thoughts. By comparing my work with the original, I discovered many faults, and corrected them ; but...that, in certain particulars of small consequence, 1 had been fortunate enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think,... | |
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