| Benjamin Franklin - Philosophers - 1818 - 566 pages
...again. I also sometimes jumbled my collection of hints into confusion, and after some weeks, endeavoured to reduce them into the best order before I began...English writer ; of which I was extremely ambitious. The time I allotted for writing exercises, and for reading, was at night, or before work began in the... | |
| English literature - 1818 - 594 pages
...natural order, as a means of acquiring method in the arrangement of his thoughts. " Thus," says he, " by comparing my work with the original, I discovered...time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which 1 was extremely ambitious." Here again his father's good sense was of advantage to him. Some judicious... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1818 - 556 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...English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious. The time I alloted for writing exercises and for reading, was at night, or before work began in the... | |
| George Lillie Craik - Knowledge, Theory of - 1830 - 484 pages
...I also sometimes jumbled my collection of hints into confusion ; and, after some weeks, endeavoured to reduce them into the best order, before I began...and self-denial which he displayed, in pursuing his favourite object of cultivating his mental faculties to the utmost of his power. When only sixteen,... | |
| George Lillie Craik - Philosophy - 1830 - 440 pages
...I also sometimes jumbled my collection of hints into confusion ; and, after some weeks, endeavoured to reduce them into the best order, before I began...and self-denial which he displayed, in pursuing his favourite object of cultivating his mental faculties to the utmost of his power. When only sixteen,... | |
| George Lillie Craik - Knowledge, Theory of - 1830 - 464 pages
...and, after some weeks, endeavoured to reduce them into the best order, before I began to form th« full sentences and complete the subject. This was...and self-denial which he displayed, in pursuing his favourite object of cultivating his mental faculties to the utmost of his power. When only sixteen,... | |
| George Lillie Craik - Self-culture - 1834 - 450 pages
...was to teach me method in the arrangement of the thoughts. By comparing my work with the original, 1 discovered many faults, and corrected them ; but I...and self-denial which he displayed, in pursuing his favourite object of cultivating his mental faculties to the utmost of his power. When only sixteen,... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1834 - 682 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...English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious. The time I allotted for writing exercises and for reading, was at night or before work began in the... | |
| Art - 1834 - 602 pages
...them ; but sometimes liad the pleasure to fancy that, in certain particulars of small consequence, 1 had been fortunate enough to improve the method or...might, in time, come to be a tolerable English writer, uf which I was extremely ambitious." franklin added to his habits of industry a self-denial and control... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1840 - 668 pages
...again. I also sometimes jumbled my collection of hints into confusion, and after some weeks endeavoured to reduce them into the best order before I began...English writer; of which I was extremely ambitious. The time I allotted for writing exercises, and for reading, was at night, or before work began in the... | |
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