 | Benjamin Franklin - 1868 - 434 pages
...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 this view...a few days, and then, without looking at the book, try'd to compleat the papers again, by expressing each hinted sentiment at length, and as fully as... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 602 pages
...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 this view...a few days, and then, without looking at the book, try'd to compleat the papers again, by expressing each hinted sentiment at length, and as fully as... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 812 pages
...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 this view...a few days, and then, without looking at the book, try'd to compleat the papers again, by expressing each hinted sentiment at any suitable words that... | |
 | George Washington Greene - 1876 - 508 pages
...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,...expressing each hinted sentiment at length, and as folly as it had been expressed before, in any suitable words that should occur to me. Then I compared... | |
 | Samuel Eliot - 1879 - 430 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... | |
 | 1879 - 244 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... | |
 | William Swinton - 1880 - 694 pages
...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 this view I took some of the papers, and, 175 making short hints of the sentiment in each sentence, laid them by a few days, and then, without... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1881 - 648 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... | |
 | Richard Fletcher Charles - 1882 - 360 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 to... | |
 | Ernest Foster - 1883 - 410 pages
...the articles in it, and, making short memoranda of the purport of each sentence, put them aside for a few days, and then, without looking at the book, tried to re-write the papers again by the sole aid of the notes he had taken. He would then compare his own... | |
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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... 
