| Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denney - 1897 - 394 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... | |
| Sydney George Fisher - 1898 - 440 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... | |
| Charles Noble - 1898 - 460 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...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 - 1899 - 204 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... | |
| Paul Leicester Ford - 1899 - 554 pages
...much delighted with it. I thought the writing excellent, and wished, if possible, to imitate it. AVith this view I took some of the papers, and, making short...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... | |
| Charles William Bardeen - 1899 - 510 pages
...criticized. Afterwards he got hold of a volume of the Spectator, 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, expressing each hinted statement at length and as fully as it had been expressed before, in any suitable... | |
| John Clark Ridpath - 1899 - 526 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... | |
| Barrett Wendell - 1900 - 598 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... | |
| Barrett Wendell - 1900 - 604 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... | |
| Thomas Harrison Montgomery - 1900 - 578 pages
...ambitious to excel in style.4 And with the view, if possible, of imitating it, his narrative tells us I took some of the papers, and making short hints...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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