 | George Washington Greene - 1865 - عدد الصفحات: 486
...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." * If there were time to comment upon this narrative, there are two points in it upon which I would... | |
 | George Washington Greene - 1865 - عدد الصفحات: 518
...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." * If there were time to comment upon this narrative, there are two points in it upon which I would... | |
 | George Washington Greene - 1865 - عدد الصفحات: 484
...sentences and complete the subject. This was to teach me method in the arrangement of the thoughts. Bv comparing my work with the original, I discovered...English writer, — of which I was extremely ambitious." * If there were time to comment upon this narrative, there are two points in it upon which I would... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Epes Sargent - 1866 - عدد الصفحات: 270
...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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1868 - عدد الصفحات: 426
...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... | |
 | Edward Everett - 1870 - عدد الصفحات: 700
...to fancy that, in certain particulars of small consequence, I had been fortunate enough to improye the method or the language, and this encouraged me...English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious." Dr Blair has shown, in his Lectures on Rhetoric, that there was no arrogance in undertaking an occasional... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - عدد الصفحات: 602
...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 - 1875 - عدد الصفحات: 812
...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... | |
 | William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - 1878 - عدد الصفحات: 508
...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... | |
 | Samuel Eliot - 1879 - عدد الصفحات: 424
...method in the arrangement of the thoughts. By comparing my work with the original, I discovered my faults, and corrected them ; but I sometimes had the...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... | |
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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... 
