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... The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin - Page 18by Benjamin Franklin - 1927 - 243 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Peter Coviello - 243 pages
...in the Arrangement of Thoughts. By comparing my work afterwards with the original, I discover'd many faults and amended them; but I sometimes had the Pleasure...enough to improve the Method or the Language and this encourag'd me to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English Writer, of which I was... | |
 | Brian W. Fairbanks - Literary Collections - 2005 - 702 pages
...Spectator, Britain's leading literary magazine. "By comparing my work afterwards with the original...I sometimes had the pleasure of fancying that in certain...import, I had been lucky enough to improve the method of the language..." he writes, displaying arrogance (the improvements made to the professional writer's... | |
 | Brian W. Fairbanks - History - 2005 - 94 pages
...Spectator, Britain's leading literary magazine. "By comparing my work afterwards with the original...I sometimes had the pleasure of fancying that in certain...import, I had been lucky enough to improve the method of the language..." he writes, displaying arrogance (the improvements made to the professional writer's... | |
 | Philip A. Cusick - Education - 2005 - 194 pages
...improve the method or the language [of The Spectator's story] and this encouraged me to think that I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious" (p. 13). Franklin also followed the practice of copying into a commonplace book passages from what... | |
 | Paul M. Zall - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 330 pages
...Method in the Arrangement of Thoughts. By comparing afterwards with the original, I discover 'd many faults and amended them; but I sometimes had the Pleasure of Fancying that in certain places I had been lucky enough to 22 improve the Method or the Language and this encourag'd me to think... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 320 pages
...sometimes had the pleasure to fancy that in certain particulars of small consequence I had been fortunate enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think that I might in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious. The... | |
 | Tom Huntington - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 100 pages
...prose. "Then I compar'd my Spectator with the Original," he wrote years later. "I discover 'd many faults and amended them; but I sometimes had the Pleasure...enough to improve the Method or the Language and this encourag'd me to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English Writer, of which I was... | |
 | Edwin Wolf, Kevin J. Hayes - Reference - 2006 - 1012 pages
...in the Arrangement of Thoughts. By comparing my Work afterwards with the Original, I discover'd many faults and amended them; but I sometimes had the Pleasure...Import, I had been lucky enough to improve the Method of the Language and this encourag'd me to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 258 pages
...in the arrangement of thoughts. By comparing my work afterwards with the original, I discover'd many faults and amended them; but I sometimes had the pleasure...enough to improve the method or the language, and this encourag'd me to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was... | |
 | Eric Burns - History - 2007 - 481 pages
...himself in his A utobiography: By comparing my work afterwards with the original, I discover'd many faults and amended them; but I sometimes had the Pleasure...enough to improve the Method or the Language and this encourag'd me to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English Writer, of which I was... | |
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