 | Sydney George Fisher - Statesmen - 1898 - 440 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. " 9 • • * In some respects this R the most interesting passage in all of Franklin's writings, it... | |
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - Literature - 1898 - 578 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 extreamly ambitious. My time for these exercises and for reading was at night, after work or before... | |
 | Charles Noble - American literature - 1898 - 460 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 extreamly ambitious. A good exercise for any one who has Franklin's ambition in this respect, would... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Anthologies - 1899 - 526 pages
...my Spectator with the original, discovered some of my faults and corrected them. . . . Sometimes I had the pleasure to fancy that in certain particulars...English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious. The time I allotted to writing exercises and for reading was at night, or before work began in the... | |
 | Paul Leicester Ford - Literary Criticism - 1899 - 554 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 extreamly ambitious. My time for these exercises and for reading was at night, after work or before... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1899 - 204 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 extreamly ambitious. My time for these exercises and for reading was at night, after work or before... | |
 | Thomas Harrison Montgomery - Pennsylvania. University - 1900 - 584 pages
...enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think, that I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer ; of which I was extremely ambitious. Franklin became more than a tolerable English writer, and he remained to his latest years a master... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1901 - 296 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 time I allotted for writing exercises and for reading was at night, or before work began in the... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale (Jr.), Adaline Wheelock Sterling - Readers - 1901 - 526 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 in the morning,... | |
 | Biography - 1901 - 502 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. FRANKLIN'S FIRST ARRIVAL IN PHILADELPHIA. Then one of the company knew the place to be Cooper's Creek,... | |
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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... 
