 This was to teach me method in the arrangement of thoughts. 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...  The popular educator - Page 268by Popular educator - 1860Full view - About this book
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - American literature - 1899 - 1110 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 am extreamly ambitious.... | |
 | Paul Leicester Ford - Literary Criticism - 1899 - 554 pages
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 | Thomas Harrison Montgomery - Pennsylvania. University - 1900 - 578 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, that I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer ; of which I was extremely... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1901 - 296 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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 | Biography - 1901 - 502 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 Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - Readers - 1902 - 564 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... | |
 | Charles Herbert Sylvester - 1903 - 358 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.... | |
 | Sherwin Cody - Authorship - 1903 - 136 pages
...amended them; but I sometimes had the pleasure of fancying, that, in certain particulars of small import, I had been fortunate 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... | |
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