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" By comparing my work afterwards with the original, I discovered many faults and amended them ; but I sometimes had the pleasure of fancying that, in certain particulars of small import, I had been lucky enough to improve the method or the language, and... "
The Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties: Illustrated by Anecdotes - Página 223
por George Lillie Craik - 1830 - 427 páginas
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Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...

Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 566 páginas
...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. I had never...English writer ; of which I was extremely ambitious. The time I allotted for writing exercises, and for reading, was at night, or before work began in the...
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The British Review, and London Critical Journal, Volumen11

1818 - 594 páginas
...natural order, as a means of acquiring method in the arrangement of his thoughts. " Thus," says he, " by comparing my work with the original, I discovered...time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which 1 was extremely ambitious." Here again his father's good sense was of advantage to him. Some judicious...
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Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin...

Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 556 páginas
...original, I discovered many faults and corrected them ; but I sometimes had the pleasure to fancy, that in particulars of small consequence I had been fortunate...English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious. The time I alloted for writing exercises and for reading, was at night, or before work began in the...
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Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin, Volumen1

Benjamin Franklin - 1834 - 682 páginas
...original, I discovered many faults and corrected them ; but I sometimes had the pleasure to fancy, that in particulars of small consequence I had been fortunate...English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious. The time I allotted for writing exercises and for reading, was at night or before work began in the...
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The Georgian Era: Voyagers and travellers. Philosophers and men of science ...

1834 - 602 páginas
...them ; but sometimes liad the pleasure to fancy that, in certain particulars of small consequence, 1 had been fortunate enough to improve the method or...might, in time, come to be a tolerable English writer, uf which I was extremely ambitious." franklin added to his habits of industry a self-denial and control...
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The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and ..., Volumen1

Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 664 páginas
...I found I wanted a stock of words, or a readiness in recollecting and using them, which I thought 1 should have acquired before that time, if I had gone...English writer; of which I was extremely ambitious. The time I allotted for writing exercises, and for reading, was at night, or before work began in the...
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Memoirs of the Most Eminent American Mechanics: Also, Lives of Distinguished ...

Henry Howe - 1840 - 492 páginas
...I also sometimes jumbled my collection of hints into confusion ; and, after some weeks, endeavored to reduce them into the best order, before I began...and self-denial which he displayed, in pursuing his favorite object of cultivating his mental faculties to the utmost of his power. When only sixteen,...
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The works of Benjamin Franklin: with notes and a life of the ..., Volumen1

Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 674 páginas
...them ; but I sometimes had the pleasure to fancy, that, in certain particulars of small consequence, 1 had been fortunate enough to improve the method or...English writer; of which I was extremely ambitious. The time I allotted for writing exercises, and for reading, was at night, or before work began in the...
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Memoirs of the Most Eminent American Mechanics: Also, Lives of Distinguished ...

Henry Howe - 1844 - 524 páginas
...consequence I had been fortunate enough to improve the method or the language ; and this encouraged me 1 3 think that I might, in time, come to be a tolerable...and self-denial which he displayed, in pursuing his favorite object of cultivating his mental faculties to the utmost of his power. When only sixteen,...
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The pursuit of knowledge under difficulties [by G.L. Craik].

George Lillie Craik - 1845 - 778 páginas
...wished, if possible, to imitate it. With that view, I took some of the papers, and making short hints ot the sentiments in each sentence, laid them by a few...tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitions." Even at this early age nothing could exceed the perseverance and self-denial which he displayed,...
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