 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...  Speech and Scrap Book for Speakers - Stran 2671924 - 304 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 556 strani
...fortunate enough to improve 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. The time I alloted for writing exercises and for reading, was at night, or before work began in the... | |
 | 1818 - 594 strani
...had the pleasure to fancy, that, in certain particulars of small consequence, I had been fortunate enough to improve 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 1 was extremely ambitious." Here... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 566 strani
...sometimes had the pleasure to fancy that in certain particulars of small consequence, I had been fortunate enough to improve 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. The... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1830 - 452 strani
...fortunate enough to improve 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." Even at this early age nothing could exceed the perseverance and self-denial which he displayed, in... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1830 - 440 strani
...sometimes had the pleasure to fancy that in certain particulars of small consequence I had been fortunate enough to improve 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."... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1830 - 484 strani
...sometimes had the pleasure to fancy that in certain particulars of small consequence I had been fortunate enough to improve 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."... | |
 | 1832 - 626 strani
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 | Benjamin Franklin - 1834 - 682 strani
...sometimes had the pleasure to fancy, that in particulars of small consequence I had been fortunate enough to improve 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. The... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 664 strani
...fortunate enough to improve 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. The time I allotted for writing exercises, and for reading, was at night, or before work began in the... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1840 - 492 strani
...sometimes had the pleasure to fancy that in certain particulars of small consequence I had been fortunate enough to improve 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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