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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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Composition-rhetoric: Designed for Use in Secondary Schools

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...
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The True Benjamin Franklin

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...
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Studies in American Literature: A Text-book for Academies and High Schools

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...
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Selections from Autobiography: Poor Richard's Almanac, Advice to a Young ...

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...
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The Many-sided Franklin

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...
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Authors' Birthdays: Containing Exercises for the Celebration of the ...

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...
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The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature: A Biographical and ...

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...
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A Literary History of America

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...
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A Literary History of America

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...
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A History of the University of Pennsylvania: From Its Foundation to A. D ...

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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