| Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 558 páginas
...odd volume of the Spectator. 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...that view I took some of the papers, and making short bints of the sentiments in each sentence, laid them by a few days, and then without looking at the... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1830 - 484 páginas
...volume of the Spectator : 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...complete the papers again, by expressing each hinted sentimental length, and as fully as it had been expressed before, in any suitable words that should... | |
| People - 1845 - 348 páginas
...with an odd volume of the Spectator. I had never before seen any of them. I bought it, read it over, and was much delighted with it. I thought the writing...without looking at the book, tried to complete the sentence again, by expressing each hinted sentiment at length, and as fully as it had been expressed... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1845 - 778 páginas
...volume of the Spectator ; I had never before seen any ot them. I bought it, read it over and over, and was much delighted with it. I thought the writing...I took some of the papers, and making short hints ot the sentiments in each sentence, laid them by a few days ; and then, without looking at the book,... | |
| James Wynne - 1850 - 372 páginas
...volume of the Spectator. I had never before seen any of them; I bought it, and read it over and over, and was much delighted with it. I thought the writing...sentiments in each sentence, laid them by a few days, and without looking at the book tried to complete the papers again." In this manner he devoted each leisure... | |
| Edward Everett - 1850 - 716 páginas
...criticism, " thought the writing excellent, and determined, if possible, to imitate it." With this view he took some of the papers, and, making short hints of the sentiments in each sentence, laid them by for a few days, and then, without looking at the book, tried to complete the papers again, by expressing... | |
| Samuel Prout Newcombe - 1851 - 398 páginas
...volume of the ' Spectator' ; I had never before 8een any of them. I bought it, read it over and over, and was much delighted with it. I thought the writing...sentiments in each sentence, laid them by a few days. Then, without looking at the book, I tried to complete the paper again, by expressing esch sentiment... | |
| Popular educator - 1852 - 842 páginas
...volume of' the Spectator ; 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...hints of the sentiments in each sentence, laid them by for a few days ; and then, without looking at the book, tried to complete the papers again, by expressing... | |
| Edward Hughes - 1855 - 468 páginas
...attributed his advancement in life. He bought an odd. volume of the Spectator ; and he used to take some of the papers, and making short hints of the sentiments in each, lay them by a few days, and then, without looking at the book, he tried to complete the papers again.... | |
| 1856 - 422 páginas
...volume of' the Spectator ; 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...hints of the sentiments in each sentence, laid them by for a few days ; and then, without looking at the book, tried to complete the papers again, by expressing... | |
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