 | William Swinton - 1891 - 686 páginas
...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 this200 encouraged me to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which... | |
 | Jenny H. Stickney - 1892 - 416 páginas
...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...to be a tolerable English writer — of which I was extremely ambitious. gained it credit and made it more in demand, and these gentlemen often visited... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1892 - 202 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1892 - 180 páginas
...amended them; but I sometimes had tinpleasure of fancying that, in certain particulars of small import, I had been lucky enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think 1 might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extreamly ambitions.... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1892 - 572 páginas
...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 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... | |
 | United States. Office of Education - 1892 - 888 páginas
...delightful way how he sometimes hail the pleasure of fancying that in certain parts of small import he had been lucky enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged him to think he might |>ossihly, in time, come to be a "tolerable Bnglish writer," of which he was... | |
 | Francis Newton Thorpe - 1893 - 540 páginas
...delightful way how he sometimes had the pleasure of fancying that in certain parts of small import he had been lucky enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged him to think he might possibly, in time, come to be a '•tolerable English writer," of which he was... | |
 | George Prentiss Butler - 1894 - 284 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson, Mrs. Ellen Mackay Hutchinson Cortissoz - 1894 - 592 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | Adams Sherman Hill - 1895 - 452 páginas
...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...English writer, of which I was extreamly ambitious." 1 . " All through my boyhood and youth," writes Mr. Stevenson, "II was known and pointed out for the... | |
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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... 
