 | Henry Howe - 1840 - 492 páginas
...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."... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1844 - 892 páginas
...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... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1844 - 524 páginas
...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 fj think that I might, in time, come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious."... | |
 | People - 1845 - 348 páginas
...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 selfdenial which... | |
 | 1846 - 222 páginas
...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." Franklin... | |
 | Horatio Hastings Weld, John Frost - 1846 - 252 páginas
...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." Franklin... | |
 | 1847 - 236 páginas
...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." Franklin... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1848 - 676 páginas
...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 T might in time come to be a tolerable English writer; of which I was extremely ambitious. The... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Horatio Hastings Weld - 1849 - 592 páginas
...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, Horatio Hastings Weld - 1849 - 582 páginas
...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... | |
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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... 
