 | People - 1845 - 348 pages
...delighted with it. I thought the writing 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 them by a few days ; and then, without looking at the book, tried... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1848 - 676 pages
...delighted with it. I thought the writing 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 them by a few days, and then, without looking at the book, tried... | |
 | Orville Luther Holley - 1848 - 534 pages
...The method, already alluded to, which he pursued to attain his end, he describes as follows : — " I took some of the papers, and making short hints of the sentiments in each sentence, laid them by a few days, and then without looking at the book, tried to... | |
 | Edward Everett - 1850 - 716 pages
...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,...again, by expressing each hinted sentiment at length, as fully as it stood in the author, and in any suitable words that occurred to him. " I then," says... | |
 | James Wynne - 1850 - 372 pages
...delighted with it. I thought the writing 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 them by a few days, and without looking at the book tried to complete... | |
 | Success - 1851 - 362 pages
...Spectator. I bought it, read it over and over, was much delighted with it, and wished to imitate it. I took some of the papers, and making short hints of the sentiments in each sentence, laid them by a few days, and then, without looking at the book, tried... | |
 | Popular educator - 1852 - 842 pages
...delighted with it. I thought the writing 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 them by for a few days ; and then, without looking at the book, tried... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1853 - 522 pages
...delighted with it. I thought the writing 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 them by a few days, and then, without looking at the book, tried... | |
 | Theodore Alois Buckley - 1853 - 446 pages
...delighted with it. I thought the writing 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 them by a few days, and then, without looking at the book, tried... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 pages
...delighted with it. I thought the writing 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 them by a few days, and then, without looking at the book, tried... | |
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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 excellent, and wished, if possible, to imitate it. With... 
