 | 1887 - 524 страници
...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." — Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. BOOK REVIEWS. Books sent to THE STUDENT for review, will be... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1888 - 250 страници
...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. My time for these exercises and for reading was at night, after work, or before it began in the morning,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1888 - 330 страници
...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. My time for these exercises, and for reading, was at night, after work, or before it began, in the... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 566 страници
...lucky enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged mo to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious. My time for these exercises and for reading was at night, after work or before it began in the morning,... | |
 | William M. Thayer - 1889 - 510 страници
...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... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1890 - 448 страници
...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 - 1891 - 142 страници
...I had been fortunate enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think I might in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely s ambitious. The time I allotted for these exercises and for reading was at night, or before work began... | |
 | Albert H. Smyth - 1889 - 324 страници
...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. My time for these exercises and for reading was at night, after work or before it began in the morning,... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1892 - 572 страници
...improve the method or the language ; and this encouraged me 1 See page 89 to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious. My time for these exercises and for reading was at night, after work, or before it began in the morning,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1892 - 202 страници
...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. My time for these exercises and for reading was at night, after work or before it began in the morning,... | |
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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... 
