 | Frederic Hudson - American newspapers - 1873 - 814 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... | |
 | Frederic Hudson - American newspapers - 1873 - 806 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... | |
 | William Chambers - Biography - 1873 - 326 pages
...next morning, and submitted, as usual, to the critics when they assembled. ' They read it,' he says; 'commented on it in my hearing ; and I had the exquisite pleasure to find that it met with their approbation ; and that, in the various conjectures they made respecting... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 602 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 - 1875 - 812 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.... | |
 | Jeremiah Chaplin - Biography & Autobiography - 1876 - 416 pages
...says, "in the morning, and communicated to his friends, when they called in as usual. They read it, commented on it in my hearing, and I had the exquisite...different guesses at the author, none were named but were of some character among us for learning and ingenuity." He was thus encouraged to write several... | |
 | Education - 1877 - 972 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 perhaps they were not really so very good ones as I then... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1877 - 982 pages
...in the morning, and communicated to his writing friends when they called in as usual. They read it, tle in music, and had a clear pleasing voice, со...that when he played psalm tunes on his violin and now that I was rather lucky in my judges, and perhaps they were not really so very good ones as I then... | |
 | William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - Readers - 1878 - 508 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... | |
 | Samuel Eliot - 1879 - 424 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... | |
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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. 
