| Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 566 pągines
...usual. They read it, commented on it in my hearing, and I had the exquisite pleasure of finding it met with their approbation, and that in their different...suppose, that I was rather lucky in my judges, and that they were not really so very good as I then believed them to be. Encouraged however by this attempt,... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1830 - 452 pągines
...read it," says he ; " commented on it in my hearing; and I had the exquisite pleasure of finding it met with their approbation ; and that in their different...among us for learning and ingenuity." " I suppose," he adds, " that I was rather lucky in my judges, and that they were not really so very good as I then... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1830 - 464 pągines
...read it," says he ; " commented on it in my hearing; and I had the exquisite pleasure of finding it met with their approbation ; and that in their different...among us for learning and ingenuity." " I suppose," he adds, " that I was rather lucky in my judges, and that they were not really so very good as I then... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1830 - 452 pągines
...read it," says he ; " commented on it in my hearing ; and I had the exquisite pleasure of finding it met with their approbation; and that in their different...some character among us for learning and ingenuity." " J suppose," he adds, " that I was rather lucky in my judges, and that they were not really so very... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1834 - 682 pągines
...exceeds 400. made it more in demand, end these gent lernen often visited us. Hearing their conversations } ]= pAN kE kf E : " R E9`> mat I was rather lucky m my judges, and they were not really so very good as F then believed them to... | |
| Henry Howe - 1840 - 492 pągines
...read it," says he ; " commented on it in my hearing ; and I had the exquisite pleasure of finding it met with their approbation ; and that in their different...among us for learning and ingenuity." " I suppose," he adds, " that I was rather lucky in my judges, and that they were not really so very good as I then... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 674 pągines
...usual. They read it, commented on it in my hearing, and I had the exquisite pleasure of finding it met with their approbation, and that, in their different guesses at the author, none were named but • Tills was written from recollection, and it is not surprising, that, after the lapse of fifty years,... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1844 - 688 pągines
...Gazette, when it was first established. This was the second newspaper published in America. — EDITOR. men of some character among us for learning and ingenuity. I suppose, that I was rather lucky ia my judges, and that they were not really so very good as I then believed them to be. Encouraged... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1845 - 778 pągines
...read it," says he ; " commented on it in my hearing'; and I had the exquisite pleasure of finding it met with their approbation ; and that, in their different...among us for learning and ingenuity." " I suppose," he adds, "that I was rather lucky in my judges, and that they were not really so very good as I then... | |
| People - 1845 - 348 pągines
...read it," he says; "commented on it in my hearing ; and I had the exquisite pleasure of finding it met with their approbation ; and that in their different...some character among us for learning and ingenuity." Encouraged by the success of this attempt, he sent several other pieces to the press in the same way,... | |
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