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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... "
The Inland Educator: A Journal for the Progressive Teacher - Page 177
1897
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Lessons from the Life of Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790

Benjamin Franklin - 1891 - 142 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...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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The Ohio Educational Monthly and the National Teacher: A Journal ..., Volume 42

1893 - 778 pages
...reproduce it. Franklin tells how he learned to write prose. "I met with an odd volume of the Spectator. I took some of the papers and making short hints of the sentiment in each sentence, I laid them by for a few days, and then, without looking at the book, tried to complete the papers...
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A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present ...

Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson, Mrs. Ellen Mackay Hutchinson Cortissoz - 1894 - 592 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...them by a few days, and then, without looking at the I book, tried to complete the papers again, by expressing each hinted sentiment at length, and as fully...
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School English: A Manual for Use in Connection with the Written English Work ...

George Prentiss Butler - 1894 - 284 pages
...them. I bought it, read it over, and was much delighted with it. I thought the writing excellent, and wished, if possible, to imitate it. With this view,...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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The Principles of Rhetoric

Adams Sherman Hill - 1895 - 464 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...
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin - 1895 - 310 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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The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers, from "The Spectator"

Joseph Addison - 1896 - 256 pages
...to imitate' it. With this view 1 took some of the papers, and making short hints of the sentiments in each sentence, laid them by a few days, and then,...looking at the book, tried to complete the papers again. . . . I also sometimes jumbled my collections of hints into confusion, and after some weeks endeavored...
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Self Culture, Volume 3, Issue 1

1896 - 124 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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Four Great Americans

James Baldwin - 1897 - 242 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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Four Great Americans: Washington, Franklin, Webster, Lincoln, a Book for ...

James Baldwin - 1897 - 268 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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