 | William M. Thayer - Biography & Autobiography - 1889 - 510 pages
...in the morning, and communicated to his writing friends, when they called in as usual. They read it, commented on it in my hearing, and I had the exquisite...character among us for learning and ingenuity. I suppose that I was rather lucky in my judges, and that they were not really so very good as I then believed... | |
 | Richard Garnett - Anthologies - 1890 - 448 pages
...in the morning, and communicated to his writing friends when they call'd in as usual. They read it, commented on it in my hearing, and I had the exquisite...character among us for learning and ingenuity. I suppose now that I was rather lucky in my judges, and that perhaps they were not really so very good ones as... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1891 - 142 pages
...his writing friends when they called m as usual. They read it, commented on it in my hearing, and I a had the exquisite pleasure of finding it met with...character among us for learning and ingenuity. I suppose that I was rather lucky in my judges, and that they were not really so very good ones as I then believed... | |
 | Jenny H. Stickney - Readers - 1892 - 416 pages
...in the morning, and communicated to his writing friends when they called in as usual. They read it, commented on it in my hearing, and I had the exquisite...character among us for learning and ingenuity. I suppose, now, that I was rather lucky in my judges, and that, perhaps, they were not really so very good ones... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - American literature - 1892 - 572 pages
...in the morning and communicated to his writing friends when they called in as usual. They read it, commented on it in my hearing, and I had the exquisite...character * among us for learning and ingenuity. I suppose now that I was rather lucky in my judges, and that perhaps they were not really so very good ones as... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Julian Willis Abernethy - 1892 - 200 pages
...in the morning, and communicated to his writing friends when they called in as usual. They read it, commented on it in my hearing, and I had the exquisite...character among us for learning and ingenuity. I suppose now that I was rather lucky in my judges, and that perhaps they were not really so very good ones as... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1895 - 310 pages
...in the morning, and communicated to his writing friends when, they called in as usual. They read it, commented on it in my hearing, and I had the exquisite...approbation, and that, in their different guesses of the author, none were named but men of some character among us for learning and ingenuity. I suppose,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1896 - 130 pages
...in the morning, and communicated to his writing friends when they called in as usual. They read it, commented on it in my hearing, and I had the exquisite...character among us for learning and ingenuity. I suppose now that I was rather lucky in my judges, 1 Franklin's memory was a little at fault here. The Courant... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - American literature - 1897 - 554 pages
...next morning, and discussed by the little company that called in as usual. "They read it," he says, "commented on it in my hearing, and I had the exquisite...some character among us for learning and ingenuity." It is not strange that he continued his anonymous communications for some time. The apprenticeship,... | |
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - Literature - 1898 - 578 pages
...in the morning, and communicated to his writing friends when they call'd in as usual. They read it, commented on it in my hearing, and I had the exquisite...character among us for learning and ingenuity. I suppose now that I was rather lucky in my judges, and that perhaps they were not really so very good ones as... | |
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They read it, commented on it in my hearing, and I had the exquisite pleasure of finding it met with their approbation, and that, in their different guesses at the author, none were named but men of some character among us for learning and ingenuity. 
