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 | Richard Fletcher Charles - 1882 - 360 pages
...the full sentences and complete the subject. This was to teach me method in the arrangement of the thoughts. By comparing my work with the original,...the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think that I might in time come to be a tolerable English writer; of which I was extremely ambitious.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - United States - 1882 - 680 pages
...the fafl sentences and complete the subject. This was to '.each me method in the arrangement of the thoughts. By comparing my work with the original,...many faults, and corrected them ; but I sometimes had ^ *Ae pleasure to fancy, that, in certain particulars of small consequence, 1 had been fortunate enough... | |
 | James Baldwin - English language - 1883 - 612 pages
...the full sentences and complete the subject. This was to teach me method in the arrangement of the thoughts. By comparing my work with the original,...the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think that I might in time come to be a tolerable English writer ; of which I was extremely ambitious.... | |
 | Loomis Joseph Campbell - Elocution - 1884 - 442 pages
...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 this encouraged me to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer. Grub Street (2), formerly... | |
 | Improved illustrated reader - 1885 - 266 pages
...to form the full sentences and complete the paper. This was to teach me method in the arrangement of thoughts. By comparing my work with the original, I discovered many faults and amended them. I sometimes had the pleasure of fancying that, in certain particulars of small import,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Inventors - 1886 - 256 pages
...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 this encouraged me to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious.... | |
 | William Swinton - American literature - 1886 - 690 pages
...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 this *ยป encouraged me to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious.... | |
 | Education - 1887 - 524 pages
...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 this encouraged me to think I might possibly, in time, come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1888 - 330 pages
...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 this encouraged me to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious.... | |
 | William M. Thayer - Biography & Autobiography - 1889 - 510 pages
...the full sentences and complete the subject. This was to teach me method in the arrangement of the thoughts. By comparing my work with the original,...the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think that I might in time come to be a tolerable English writer ; of which I was extremely ambitious.... | |
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