 | Boys - Boys - 1880 - 362 pages
...rhyme, would have laid me under a constant necessity of searching for IUS TENACIOUS PERSEVERANCE. 245 variety, and also have tended to fix that variety...English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious." The boy who worked with such thoughtfulness, such determination, and such singleness of aim could not... | |
 | William Swinton - American literature - 1880 - 694 pages
...enough to improve the method or the language ; and this 200 encouraged me to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious. My time for these exercises and for reading was at night, after work, or before it began in the morning,... | |
 | Richard Fletcher Charles - 1882 - 360 pages
...different length to suit the measure, or of different sound for the rhyme, would have .laid me under a necessity of searching for variety, and also have...English writer; of which I was extremely ambitious. The time I allotted for writing exercises, and for reading, was at night, or before work began in the... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - United States - 1882 - 680 pages
...consequence, 1 had been fortunate enough to improve ^e method or the language, and this encouraged me ') think, that I might in time come to be a tolerable...English writer; of which I was extremely ambitious. T\ve time I allotted for writing exercises, and for reada§, was at night, or before work began in... | |
 | James Baldwin - English language - 1883 - 612 pages
...again. I also sometimes jumbled my collection of hints into confusion, and after some weeks endeavored to reduce them into the best order before I began...English writer ; of which I was extremely ambitious. The titles of a few of Dr. Franklin's essays will indicate the character of their subject-matter: Qn... | |
 | William Swinton - Readers - 1885 - 620 pages
...see meaning in tiie Glossary. 172 173 language ; and this encouraged l me to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious. My time for these exercises and for reading was at night, after work, or before it began in the morning;... | |
 | William Swinton - Readers - 1885 - 624 pages
...Note 5; and see meaning in the Glossary language ; and this encouraged l me to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious. My time for these exercises and for reading was at night, after work, or before it began in the morning;... | |
 | Improved illustrated reader - 1885 - 266 pages
...been lucky enough to improve the method or the language. This encouraged me to think I might possibly, in time, come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious. 7. My brother had, in 1720 or 1721, begun to print a newspaper. It was the second that appeared in... | |
 | William Swinton - American literature - 1886 - 690 pages
...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. My time for these exercises and for reading was at night, after work, or before it began in the morning,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Inventors - 1886 - 256 pages
...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. ^ My time for these exercises and for reading was at night, after work, or before it began V in the... | |
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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 been lucky enough to improve the method or the language, and... 
