 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
 | John Clark Ridpath - Anthologies - 1899 - 526 pages
...Sometimes I 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... | |
 | Thomas Harrison Montgomery - Pennsylvania. University - 1900 - 578 pages
...verse ; and, after a time, when I had pretty well forgotten the prose, turned them back again . * * * By comparing my work afterwards with the original,...or the language, 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.... | |
 | Biography - 1901 - 502 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...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,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1901 - 296 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... | |
 | William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - Readers - 1902 - 564 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. 12. My brother had, in 1720 or 1721, begun to print a newspaper. It was the second that appeared in... | |
 | Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denney - English language - 1902 - 408 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...lucky enough to improve the method or the language. The parts of a good composition are related one to another, and to the whole composition, in an intelligible... | |
 | Readers - 1903 - 362 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...writer — of which I was extremely ambitious. My brother had, in 1720 or 1721, begun to print a newspaper. It was the second that appeared in America,... | |
 | D.C. Heath and Company - Readers - 1903 - 362 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...writer — of which I was extremely ambitious. My brother had, in 1720 or 1721, begun to print a newspaper. It was the second that appeared in America,... | |
 | Sherwin Cody - Authorship - 1903 - 136 pages
...complete the subject. This was to teach me method in the arrangement of the thoughts. By comparing my work with the original, I discovered my faults and amended...in certain particulars of small import, I had been fortunate enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think that I might... | |
 | Charles Herbert Sylvester - 1903 - 358 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... | |
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