 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1818 - 558 pages
...credit, and made it more in demand, and these gentlemen often visited us. Hearing their conversations and their accounts of the approbation their papers...press several other pieces, that were equally approved j and I kept my secret till all my fund of sense for such performances was exhausted, and then discovered... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1818 - 556 pages
...brother would object to printing any thing of mine in his paper, if he knew it to be mine, I-contrived to disguise my hand, and writing an anonymous paper,...considered with a little more attention by my brother's acquaintance. However, that did not quite please him, as he thought it tended to make me too vain.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1818 - 566 pages
...character among us, for learning and ingenuity. I suppose, that I was rather lucky in my judges, and that they were not really so very good as I then believed...then discovered it, when I began to be considered a little more by my brother's acquain^ tance. However that did not quite please him, as he thought... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Philosophers - 1818 - 566 pages
...rather lucky in my judges, and that they were not really so very good as J then believed them to he, Encouraged however by this attempt, I wrote and sent...then discovered it, when I began to be considered a little more by my brother's acquaintance. However that did no.t quite please him, as he thought it... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Knowledge, Theory of - 1830 - 464 pages
...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 believed them to be." Encouraged, however, by the success of this attempt, he sent several other pieces to the press in the same way, keeping his... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Self-culture - 1830 - 452 pages
...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 believed them to be." Encouraged, however, by the success of this attempt, he sent several other pieces to the press in the same way, keeping his... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1834 - 682 pages
...ingenuity. I suppose mat I was rather lucky m my judges, and they were not really so very good as F then believed them to be. Encouraged however by this...considered with a little more attention by my brother's acquaintance. However, that did pot quite please him, as he thought it tended to make me too vain.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1840 - 664 pages
...character among us for learning and ingenuity. I suppose, that I was rather lucky in my judges, and that they were not really so very good as I then believed...then discovered it, when I began to be considered a little more by my brother's acquaintance. However, that did not quite please him, as he thought it... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 674 pages
...character among us for learning and ingenuity. I suppose, that I was rather lucky in my judges, and that they were not really so very good as I then believed...then discovered it, when I began to be considered a little more by my brother's acquaintance. However, that did not quite please him, as he thought it... | |
 | Henry Howe - Industrial arts - 1840 - 492 pages
...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 believed them to be." Encouraged, however, by the success of this attempt, he sent several other pieces to the press in the same way, keeping his... | |
| |
I 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, I wrote and sent in the same way to the press several other pieces that were equally approved... 
