 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 558 strani
...an odd volume of the Spectator. I had never before seen any of them. I bought it, read it over and over, and was much delighted with it. I thought the...that view I took some of the papers, and making short bints of the sentiments in each sentence, laid them by a few days, and then without looking at the... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1845 - 778 strani
...an odd volume of the Spectator ; I had never before seen any ot them. I bought it, read it over and over, and was much delighted with it. I thought the...I took some of the papers, and making short hints ot the sentiments in each sentence, laid them by a few days ; and then, without looking at the book,... | |
 | James Wynne - 1850 - 372 strani
...odd volume of the Spectator. I had never before seen any of them; I bought it, and read it over and over, and was much delighted with it. I thought the...sentiments in each sentence, laid them by a few days, and without looking at the book tried to complete the papers again." In this manner he devoted each leisure... | |
 | Edward Everett - 1850 - 716 strani
...criticism, " thought the writing excellent, and determined, if possible, to imitate it." With this view he took some of the papers, and, making short hints of the sentiments in each sentence, laid them by for a few days, and then, without looking at the book, tried to complete the papers again, by expressing... | |
 | Samuel Prout Newcombe - 1851 - 398 strani
...odd volume of the ' Spectator' ; I had never before 8een any of them. I bought it, read it over and over, and was much delighted with it. I thought the...sentiments in each sentence, laid them by a few days. Then, without looking at the book, I tried to complete the paper again, by expressing esch sentiment... | |
 | Popular educator - 1852 - 842 strani
...an odd volume of' the Spectator ; I had never before seen any of them. I bought it, read it over and over, and was much delighted with it. I thought the...hints of the sentiments in each sentence, laid them by for a few days ; and then, without looking at the book, tried to complete the papers again, by expressing... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1855 - 468 strani
...attributed his advancement in life. He bought an odd. volume of the Spectator ; and he used to take some of the papers, and making short hints of the sentiments in each, lay them by a few days, and then, without looking at the book, he tried to complete the papers again.... | |
 | 1856 - 422 strani
...an odd volume of' the Spectator ; I had never before seen any of them. I bought it, read it over and over, and was much delighted with it. I thought the...hints of the sentiments in each sentence, laid them by for a few days ; and then, without looking at the book, tried to complete the papers again, by expressing... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Horatio Hastings Weld - 1856 - 584 strani
...an odd volume of the Spectator. I had never before seen any of them. I bought it, read it over and over, and was much delighted with it. I thought the...took some of the papers, and, making short hints of the'sentiments in each sentence, laid them by a few days, and then, without looking at the book, tried... | |
 | William O. Blake - 1856 - 1124 strani
...took the Mowing method : — ' I bought,' he says, ' an odd volume of The Spectator, read it over and over, and was much delighted with it. I thought the...excellent, and wished, if possible, to imitate it. With this view, I took some of the papers, and making short hints of the sentiments in each sentence, laid... | |
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It was the third. I had never before seen any of them. I bought it, read it over and over, and was much delighted with it. I thought the writing excellent, and wished, if possible, to imitate it. 
