 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
 | Massachusetts - 1906 - 124 pages
...in the arrangement of thoughts. By comparing my work afterwards with the original, I discovered many faults and amended them; but I sometimes had the pleasure...English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious. FRANKLIN'S FIRST ARRIVAL IN PHILADELPHIA Then one of the company knew the place to be Cooper's Creek,... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1906 - 128 pages
...in the arrangement of thoughts. By comparing my work afterwards with the original, I discovered many faults and amended them; but I sometimes had the pleasure...English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious. FRANKLIN'S FIRST ARRIVAL IN PHILADELPHIA Then one of the company knew the place to be Cooper's Creek,... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - English literature - 1906 - 318 pages
...the arrangement of thoughts. By comparing my work afterwards, with the original, I discovered many faults and amended them; but I sometimes had the pleasure...me to think I might possibly in time come to be a Jtqlerable English writer, of which I was extremely_ ambitious." His method — on the whole one of... | |
 | Edwin Anderson Alderman - Readers - 1906 - 268 pages
...in the arrangement of thoughts. 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 some particulars of small import, I had been lucky enough to improve the method of the language. This... | |
 | Theodore Hornberger - Biography & Autobiography - 50 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... | |
 | Mary Ann Radzinowicz - Literary Criticism - 1984 - 300 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... | |
 | Donald E. Knuth, Tracy Larrabee, Paul M. Roberts - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1989 - 132 pages
...in the arrangement of thoughts. 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 Next, she reminded us of the verse-writing exercises that she had so highly recommended during the... | |
 | Herbert A. Leibowitz - Biography & Autobiography - 1991 - 420 pages
...the sentiments in his own words: 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... | |
 | Jay Fliegelman - History - 1993 - 296 pages
...the essays, comparing them, and then testing himself again, Franklin concluded in the Autobiography, "I sometimes had the Pleasure of Fancying that, in...Import, I had been lucky enough to improve the method of the Language and this encourag'd me to think I might possibly come to be a tolerable English Writer,... | |
 | Christopher Looby - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1996 - 304 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... | |
| |
