 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1868 - 434 pages
...expressed before, in any suitable words that should come to hand. Then I compared my Spectator vt'tf\\ the original, discovered some of my faults, and corrected...if I had gone on making verses; since the continual occasion for words of the same import, but of different length, to suit the measure, or of different... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1869 - 426 pages
...length, and as fully as it had been expressed before, in any suitable words that should come to hand. Then I compared my Spectator with the original, discovered...I had gone on making verses ; since the continual occasion for words of the same import, but of different length, to suit the measure, or of different... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 812 pages
...the papers again, by expressing each hinted sentiment at any suitable words that should come to hand. Then I compared my Spectator with the original, discovered...I had gone on making verses ; since the continual occasion for words of the same import, but of different length, to suit the measure, or of different... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, John Bigelow - 1875 - 579 pages
..., and as fully as it had been expressed before, in in any suitable words that should come to hand. Then I compared my Spectator with the original, discovered...I had gone on making verses ; since the continual occasion for words of the same import, but of different length, to suit the measure, or of different... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1877 - 982 pages
...length, and as fully as it had been expressed before, in any suitable words that should come to hand. Then I compared my Spectator with the original, discovered...I had gone on making verses ; since the continual occasion for words of the same import, but of different length, to suit the measure, or of different... | |
 | Education - 1877 - 972 pages
...length, and as fully as it had been expressed before, in any suitable words that should come to hand. Then I compared my Spectator with the original, discovered...I had gone on making verses ; since the continual occasion for words of the same import, but of different length, to suit the measure, or of different... | |
 | William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - Readers - 1878 - 508 pages
...length, and as fully as it had been expressed before, in any suitable words that should come to hand. 10. Then I compared my Spectator with the original, discovered...I had gone on making verses ; since the continual occasion for words of the same import, but of different length, to suit the measure, or of different... | |
 | Boys - Boys - 1880 - 362 pages
...correct them. " I found," he says, " I wanted a stock of words, or a readiness in recollecting and usinj them, which I thought I should have acquired before...that time if I had gone on making verses, since the continued search for words of the same import, but of different length to suit the measure, or of different... | |
 | William Swinton - American literature - 1880 - 694 pages
...I found I wanted a stock of words, or a readiness in recollecting and using them, which I thought f should have acquired before that time if I had gone on making verses ; since the continual occasion for words of 185 the same import, but of different length, to suit the measure, or of different... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1881 - 648 pages
...experience in the printing-office. From that moment Franklin determined to spare no pains in endeavouring to improve his style ; and we shall give, in his own...I thought I should have acquired before that time it I had gone on making verses; since the continual search for words of the same import, but of different... | |
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I had gone on making verses ; since the continual occasion for words of the same import, but of different length, to suit the measure, or of different sound for the rhyme, would have laid me under a constant necessity of searching for variety, and also... 
