 This was to teach me method in the arrangement of thoughts. 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...  The popular educator - Page 268by Popular educator - 1860Full view - About this book
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 566 pages
...the full sentences and complete the subject. This was to teach me method in the arrangement of the thoughts. By comparing my work with the original I...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.... | |
 | 1818 - 594 pages
...natural order, as a means of acquiring method in the arrangement of his thoughts. " Thus," says he, " by comparing my work with the original, I discovered...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."... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 556 pages
...the full sentences and complete the subject. This was to teach me method in the arrangement of the thoughts. By comparing my work with the original,...but I sometimes had the pleasure to fancy, that in particulars of small consequence I had been fortunate enough to improve the method or the language,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1830 - 440 pages
...the full sentences and complete the subject. This was to teach me method in the arrangement of the thoughts. By comparing my work with the original,...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 - 452 pages
...the full sentences and complete the subject. This was to teach me method in the arrangement of the thoughts. By comparing my work with the original,...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 - 1834 - 450 pages
...was to teach me method in the arrangement of the thoughts. By comparing my work with the original, 1 discovered many faults, and corrected them ; but I...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 - 1834 - 682 pages
...form the full sentences and complete the subject This was to teach me method in the arrangement of the thoughts. By comparing my work with the original,...but I sometimes had the pleasure to fancy, that in particulars of small consequence I had been fortunate enough to improve the method or the language,... | |
 | 1834 - 602 pages
...them ; but sometimes liad the pleasure to fancy that, in certain particulars of small consequence, 1 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, uf which I was extremely ambitious."... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1840 - 492 pages
...the full sentences and complete the subject. This was to teach me method in the arrangement of the thoughts. By comparing my work with the original,...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 - 1840 - 674 pages
...the full sentences and complete the subject. This was to teach me method in the arrangement of the thoughts. By comparing my work with the original,...that, in certain particulars of small consequence, 1 had been fortunate enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think,... | |
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