 This was to teach me method 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 pleasure of fancying that, in certain particulars of small import, I had...  The popular educator - Page 268by Popular educator - 1860Full view - About this book
 | Richard Garnett - Anthologies - 1890 - 448 pages
...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 this encouraged me to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extreamly ambitious.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1891 - 142 pages
...form the full sentences and complete the paper. This was to teach me method in the arrangement of the thoughts. By comparing my work with the original,...the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think I might in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely s ambitious.... | |
 | Albert H. Smyth - American literature - 1889 - 324 pages
...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 this encouraged me to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer ,\ of which I was extremely... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Biography - 1892 - 202 pages
...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 this encouraged me to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious.... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - American literature - 1892 - 572 pages
...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 this encouraged me 1 See page 89 to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was... | |
 | Jenny H. Stickney - Readers - 1892 - 416 pages
...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 this encouraged me to think I might possibly, in time, come to be a tolerable English writer — of which I was extremely... | |
 | George Prentiss Butler - English language - 1894 - 284 pages
...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 this encouraged me to think I might possibly in . time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1895 - 310 pages
...the full sentences and complete the subject. This was to teach me method in the arrangement of the thoughts. By comparing my work with the original,...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.... | |
 | Adams Sherman Hill - English language - 1895 - 450 pages
...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 this encouraged me to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extreamly ambitious."1... | |
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