| Benjamin Franklin - Philosophers - 1818 - 566 pages
...thence grew more attentive to my manner of writing, and determined to endeavour to improve my style. About this time, I met with an odd volume of the Spectator....excellent, and wished if possible to imitate it. With that view, I took some of the papers, and making short hints of the sentiments in each sentence, laid... | |
| Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1824 - 308 pages
...invited me to see his library, and had the goodness to lend me any books I was desirous of reading. 14 About this time I met with an odd volume of the Spectator....excellent, and wished if possible to imitate it. With that view, I took some of the papers, and making short hints of the sentiments in each sentence, laid... | |
| Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1830 - 336 pages
...invited me to see his library, and had the goodness to lend me any books I was desirous of reading. 14 About this time I met with an odd volume of the Spectator....excellent, and wished if possible to imitate it. With that view, I took some of the papers, and making short hints of the sentiments in each sentence, laid... | |
| George Lillie Craik - Intellectuals - 1830 - 452 pages
...we shall give, in his own words, the method he pursued for that end. " About this time," says he, " I met with an odd volume of the Spectator : I had...excellent ; and wished, if possible, to imitate it. With that view, I took some of the papers, and making short hints of the sentiments in each sentence, laid... | |
| George Lillie Craik - Philosophy - 1830 - 440 pages
...we shall give, in his own words, the method he pursued for that end. " About this time," says he, " I met with an odd volume of the Spectator : I had...excellent ; and wished, if possible, to imitate it. With that view, I took some of the papers, and making short hints of the sentiments in each sentence, laid... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1834 - 682 pages
...thence grew more attentive to my manner of writing, and determined to endeavour to improve my style. ٱ ][ \[ w r 3z|<x H 1oVl | w > Og } - . x ͑ _ q c : p 0 ٯ z GgL^> that view I took some of the papers, and making short hints of the sentiments in each sentence, laid... | |
| Art - 1834 - 602 pages
...was much delighted with it. 1 thought the writing excellent, and wished, if posbible, to imit ite if. With this view, I took some of the papers, and, making short hints uf the sentiments in each sentence, l.uil them by a few d.iys; and then, wiiluut looking at the bouk,... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1840 - 668 pages
...thence grew more attentive to my manner of writing, and determined to endeavour to improve my style. About this time, I met with an odd volume of the Spectator....excellent, and wished if possible to imitate it. With that view, I took some of the papers, and making short hints of the sentiments in each sentence, laid... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 674 pages
...thence grew more attentive to my manner of writing, and determined to endeavour to improve my style. About this time, I met with an odd volume of the Spectator....excellent, and wished if possible to imitate it. With that view, I took some of the papers, and making short hints of the sentiments in each sentence, laid... | |
| Henry Howe - Industrial arts - 1840 - 492 pages
...we shall give, in his own words, the method he pursued for that end. " About this time," says he, " I met with an odd volume of the Spectator ; I had...excellent ; and wished, if possible, to imitate it. With that view, I took some of the papers, and making short hints of the sentiments in each sentence, laid... | |
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