 This was to teach me method in the arrangement of thoughts. 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...  Annals of industry and genius - Página 123por Cecilia Lucy Brightwell - 1863Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 566 páginas
...them ; but I sometimes had the pleasure to fancy that in certain particulars of small consequence, I had been fortunate enough to improve the method...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... | |
 | 1818 - 594 páginas
...them ; but I sometimes had the pleasure to fancy, that, in certain particulars of small consequence, I had been fortunate enough to improve the method...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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 558 páginas
...corrected them j but I sometimes had the pleasure to fancy, that in particulars of small consequence I had been fortunate enough to improve the method...encouraged me to think, that I might in time come to he a tolerabfe English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious. The time I alloted for writing exercises... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1830 - 440 páginas
...corrected them ; but I sometimes had the pleasure to fancy that in certain particulars of small consequence I had been fortunate enough to improve the method...ambitious." Even at this early age nothing could exceed the perseverance and self-denial which he displayed, in pursuing his favourite object of cultivating... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1830 - 452 páginas
...corrected them ; but I sometimes had the pleasure to fancy that in certain particulars of small consequence I had been fortunate enough to improve the method...ambitious." Even at this early age nothing could exceed the perseverance and self-denial which he displayed, in pursuing his favourite object of cultivating... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1834 - 682 páginas
...corrected them ; but I sometimes had the pleasure to fancy, that in particulars of small consequence I had been fortunate enough to improve the method...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1840 - 492 páginas
...corrected them ; but I sometimes had the pleasure to fancy that in certain particulars of small consequence I had been fortunate enough to improve the method...ambitious." Even at this early age nothing could exceed the perseverance and self-denial which he displayed, in pursuing his favorite object of cultivating... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1844 - 524 páginas
...corrected them ; but I sometimes had the pleasure to fancy that in certain particulars of small 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 English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious."... | |
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