 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
 | Richard Fletcher Charles - 1882 - 360 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... | |
 | James Baldwin - English language - 1883 - 612 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... | |
 | Loomis Joseph Campbell - Elocution - 1884 - 442 pages
...the arrangement of thoughts. 8. By comparing my work afterwards with the original, I discovered many faults and amended them; but I sometimes had the pleasure...possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer. Grub Street (2), formerly a street in London, once noted for literary hacks and inferior literary productions... | |
 | William Swinton - Readers - 1885 - 624 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...had been lucky enough to improve the method or the 1 with this view ... to hand. What type of sentence grammatically? Period or loose sentence ? 2 wanted,... | |
 | Improved illustrated reader - 1885 - 266 pages
...arrangement of thoughts. By comparing my work with the original, I discovered many faults and amended them. I sometimes had the pleasure of fancying that, in...lucky enough to improve the method or the language. This encouraged me to think I might possibly, in time, come to be a tolerable English writer, of which... | |
 | William Swinton - Readers - 1885 - 620 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...of fancying that, in certain particulars of small import,7 I had been lucky enough to improve the method .or the 1 with this view . . . to hand. What... | |
 | Education - 1887 - 524 pages
...in the arrangement of thoughts. By comparing my work afterward with the original I discovered many faults and amended them ; but I sometimes had the...English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious." — Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. BOOK REVIEWS. Books sent to THE STUDENT for review, will be... | |
 | William Swinton - English literature - 1887 - 686 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...enough to improve the method or the language; and this »0 encouraged me to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 566 pages
...in the arrangement of thoughts. By comparing my work afterward with the original, I discovered many faults and amended them; but I sometimes had the pleasure...improve the method or the language, and this encouraged mo to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1888 - 604 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...fancying that, in certain particulars of small import, 1 had been lucky enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think I might... | |
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