 | Arthur L. Murray, E. P. Wiles - English language - 1922 - 500 pages
...more particular of this account of my journey, and shall be so of my first entry into Philadelphia, that you may in your mind compare such unlikely beginnings with the figure I have since made there. This is Franklin's topic throughout the narrative. When choosing the details he shall use, he thus... | |
 | Robert Shafer - American literature - 1926 - 1410 pages
...o'clock on the Sunday morning, and landed at the Market-street wharf. I have been the more particular in this description of my journey, and shall be so...there. I was in my working dress, my best clothes being to come round by sea. I was dirty from my journey; my pockets were stuffed out with shirts and... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1927 - 344 pages
...o'clock on the Sunday morning, and landed at the Market-street wharf. I have been the more particular in this description of my journey, and shall be so...such unlikely beginnings with the figure I have since i made there. I was in my working dress, my best •;, clothes being to come round by sea. I was dirty... | |
 | Literature - 1914 - 1058 pages
...statue and its setting : I have been the more particular in this description of my journey that you may compare such unlikely beginnings with the figure I have since made there. REMINISCENCES OF TOLSTOY BY HIS SON, COUNT ILYA TOLSTOY TRANSLATED BY GEORGE CALDERON IN the summer,... | |
 | Mary Ann Radzinowicz - Literary Criticism - 1984 - 300 pages
...Clock, on the Sunday morning, and landed at the Market street Wharff. I have been the more particular in this Description of my Journey, and shall be so...since made there. I was in my Working Dress, my best Cloaths being to come round by Sea. I was dirty from my Journey; my Pockets were stuffd out with Shirts... | |
 | Peter J. Bailey - 1985 - 248 pages
...he explains in the Autobiography, "and shall be so of my first entry into that City [Philadelphia], that you may in your mind compare such unlikely Beginnings with the figure I have since made there"'), as well as his introduction into the work of a letter describing its first part as "a sort of Key to... | |
 | Joyce A. Rowe - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 172 pages
...has "been the more particular in this Description of my Journey, and ... of my first entry into the City, that you may in your Mind compare such unlikely Beginnings with the Figure I have since then made."14 Forty years after the autobiography was first published, Hawthorne wrote the tale of... | |
 | Herbert A. Leibowitz - Biography & Autobiography - 1991 - 420 pages
...Franklin's "first Entry" into Philadelphia, a wonderful piece of storytelling, is designed, he says, to "compare such unlikely Beginnings with the Figure I have since made there." (75) By emphasizing the "awkward ridiculous Appearance" of the anonymous bumpkinconqueror, surveying... | |
 | Myra Jehlen, Michael Warner - History - 1997 - 1146 pages
...the Market street Wharff. — I have been the more particular in this Description of my Journey, & ess of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, Beginning with the Figure I have since made there. I was in my working Dress, my best Cloaths being... | |
 | Rafia Zafar - African Americans - 1997 - 270 pages
...time in pointing out the moral: I have been the more particular in this Description of my Journey, & shall be so of my first Entry into that City, that you may in your mind compare such unlikely Beginning with the Figure I have since made there. ... I was dirty from my Journey; my Pockets were... | |
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I have been the more particular in this description of my journey, and shall be so of my first entry into that city, that you may in your mind compare such unlikely beginnings with the figure I have since made there. 
