 | Edwin Anderson Alderman - 1906 - 268 pàgines
...ability I have in that way. About this time I met with an odd volume of the Spectator. It was the third. I had never before seen any of them. I bought it,...excellent and wished, if possible, to imitate it. With this view I took some of the papers, and making short hints of the sentiment in each sentence, laid... | |
 | Edwin Anderson Alderman - 1906 - 268 pàgines
...ability I have in that way. About this time I met with an odd volume of the Spectator. It was the third. I had never before seen any of them. I bought it,...excellent and wished, if possible, to imitate it. With this view I took some of the papers, and making short hints of the sentiment in each sentence, laid... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1906 - 124 pàgines
...EARLY READING AND STUDIES About this time I met with an odd volume of the Spectator. It was the third. I had never before seen any of them. I bought it,...excellent, and wished if possible to imitate it. With this view I took some of the papers, and making short hints of the sentiment in each sentence, laid... | |
 | Franklin Bi-centennial Joint Committee (Boston, Mass.) - 1906 - 124 pàgines
...EARLY READING AND STUDIES About this time I met with an odd volume of the Spectator. It was the third. I had never before seen any of them. I bought it,...excellent, and wished if possible to imitate it. With this view I took some of the papers, and making short hints of the sentiment in each sentence, laid... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1906 - 268 pàgines
...with an odd volume of the ^ectat(y\. It was the third. I had never before seen any of them.' Ibought it, read it over and over, and was much delighted...excellent, and wished, if possible, to imitate it. With this view I took some of the papers, and, making short hints of the sentiment in each sentence, laid... | |
 | 1907 - 284 pàgines
...ability I have in that way. About this time I met with an odd volume of the Spectator. It was the third. I had never before seen any of them. I bought it,...excellent, and wished, if possible, to imitate it. With this view I took some of the papers, and, making short hints of the sentiment in each sentence, laid... | |
 | Theodore Hornberger - 50 pàgines
...of The Spectator. "I took some of the Papers," he tells us, "& making short Hints of the Sentiment in each Sentence, laid them by a few Days, and then without looking at the Book, try'd to cornpleat the Papers again, by expressing each hinted Sentiment at length & as fully as it... | |
 | Mary Ann Radzinowicz - 1984 - 300 pàgines
...endeavour at Improvement. About this time I met with an odd Volume of the Spectator. It was the third. I had never before seen any of them. I bought it,...delighted with it. I thought the Writing excellent, and wish'd if possible to imitate it. With that View, I took some of the Papers, and making short Hints... | |
 | Jefferson Humphries - 1987 - 136 pàgines
...practice as the American La Rochefoucauld: Meeting "with an odd volume of The Spectator," Franklin "thought the writing excellent and wished if possible to imitate it." With this view I took some of the papers, and, making short hints of the sentiment in each sentence, laid... | |
 | Donald E. Knuth, Tracy Larrabee, Paul M. Roberts - 1989 - 132 pàgines
...endeavor an improvement. About this time I met with an odd volume of the Spectator. It was the third. I had never before seen any of them. I bought it,...excellent, and wished, if possible, to imitate it. With this view I took some of the papers, and, making short hints of the sentiment in each sentence, laid... | |
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I had never before seen any of them. I bought it, read it over and over, and was much delighted with it. I thought the writing excellent, and wished, if possible, to imitate it. 
