 | Benjamin Franklin - 1909 - 236 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 - Inventors - 1909 - 432 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... | |
 | Margaret Ashmun - American literature - 1910 - 320 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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1910 - 216 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... | |
 | Ellen E. Kenyon-Warner - Readers - 1910 - 310 pages
...It was found in the morning, and communicated to his friends when they called in as usual. They read it in my hearing, and I had the exquisite pleasure of finding it met with their approbation. 21. I suppose that I was rather lucky in my judges, and that they were not really so very good as I... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1912 - 274 pages
...had the exquisite pleasure of finding it met with their approbation, and that, in their 15different guesses at the author, none were named but men of...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... | |
 | John Lawson Stoddard - Anthologies - 1913 - 494 pages
...found in the morning, and committed to his writing friends when they called in as usual. They read it, commented on it in my hearing, and I had the exquisite pleasure of finding it had met with their approbation, and that, in their different guesses at the author, none were named... | |
 | Adaline May Conway - American essays - 1914 - 140 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...with their approbation, and that, in their different guess at the author, none were named but men of some character among us for learning and ingenuity.... | |
 | Adaline May Conway - American essays - 1914 - 144 pages
...the exquisite pleasure of finding it met with their approbation, and that, in their different guess at the author, none were named but men of some character among us for learning and ingenuity. I suppose, that I was rather lucky in my judges, and that they were not really so good as I then believed them... | |
 | Park Pressey - Profession, Choice of - 1916 - 252 pages
...the comment of his brother's friends. "It was found in the morning," Franklin says. "They read it, commented on it in my hearing, and I had the exquisite...some character among us for learning and ingenuity." This encouraged him to write more, and before he was discovered he had contributed many articles that... | |
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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. 
