 | William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - Readers - 1902 - 564 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. 12. My brother had, in 1720 or 1721, begun to print a newspaper. It was the second that appeared in... | |
 | Charles Herbert Sylvester - 1903 - 358 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... | |
 | Readers - 1903 - 362 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 brother had, in 1720 or 1721, begun to print a newspaper. It was the second that appeared in America,... | |
 | D.C. Heath and Company - Readers - 1903 - 362 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 brother had, in 1720 or 1721, begun to print a newspaper. It was the second that appeared in America,... | |
 | Sherwin Cody - Authorship - 1903 - 136 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. My time for these exercises and for reading was at night, after work, or before it began in the morning,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thayer - United States - 1905 - 422 pages
...original, discovered some of my faults, and corrected them. But I found that I wanted a stock of words, or readiness in recollecting and using them, which I...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 - 1905 - 238 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 - Statesmen - 1905 - 354 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... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - English literature - 1906 - 302 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." His method — on the whole one of the best of disciplines, better, I think, than the system of themes... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - American literature - 1907 - 306 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." His method — on the whole one of the best of disciplines, better, I think, than the system of themes... | |
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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... 
