| Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 556 páginas
...an odd volume of the Spectator. I had never before seen a'ny of them. I bought it, read it over and over, and was much delighted with it. I thought the...expressing each hinted sentiment at length and as fully us it had been expressed before in any suitable words that should occur to me. Then I compared my Spectator... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 558 páginas
...an 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...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
...an 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...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
...met 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...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
...an odd 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...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
...odd 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...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
...odd 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...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
...an 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...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... | |
| 1856 - 422 páginas
...an 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...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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