 | Charles Noble - 1898 - 460 pages
...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. A good exercise for any one who has Franklin's ambition in this respect, would... | |
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - 1898 - 578 pages
...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... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1899 - 526 pages
...my Spectator with the original, discovered some of my faults and corrected them. . . . Sometimes I had the pleasure to fancy that in certain particulars...English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious. The time I allotted to writing exercises and for reading was at night, or before work began in the... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1899 - 204 pages
...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... | |
 | Paul Leicester Ford - 1899 - 554 pages
...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... | |
 | Thomas Harrison Montgomery - 1900 - 584 pages
...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 ambitious. Franklin became more than a tolerable English writer, and he remained to his latest years a master... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1901 - 296 pages
...words or a readiness in recollecting and using them, which I thought I should have acquired befpre that time if I had gone on making verses; since 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... | |
 | 1901 - 502 pages
...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. FRANKLIN'S FIRST ARRIVAL IN PHILADELPHIA. Then one of the company knew the place to be Cooper's Creek,... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale (Jr.), Adaline Wheelock Sterling - 1901 - 526 pages
...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,... | |
 | William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - 1902 - 564 pages
...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... | |
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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 to form the full sentences and complete the subject. This was to teach me method in the arrangement of the... 
