 | Frederick Elmer Bolton - 1910 - 816 pages
...delighted with it. I thought the writing was 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 work, tried... | |
 | Margaret Ashmun - 1910 - 320 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 Hornberger - 50 pages
...then most fashionable and admired, that of The Spectator. "I took some of the Papers," he tells us, "& making short Hints of the Sentiment in each Sentence,...a few Days, and then without looking at the Book, try'd to cornpleat the Papers again, by expressing each hinted Sentiment at length & as fully as it... | |
 | Mary Ann Radzinowicz - 1984 - 300 pages
...delighted with it. I thought the Writing excellent, and wish'd 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 it... | |
 | Jefferson Humphries - 1987 - 136 pages
...Rochefoucauld: Meeting "with an odd volume of The Spectator," Franklin "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 complcat the papers again, by expressing each hinted sentiment at length, and as fully as... | |
 | Donald E. Knuth, Tracy Larrabee, Paul M. Roberts - 1989 - 132 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... | |
 | Michael Warner - 2009 - 228 pages
...Writing excellent, & wish'd if possible to imitate it. With that View, I took some of the Papers, & making short Hints of the Sentiment in each Sentence,...a few Days, and then without looking at the Book, trfd to compleat the Papers again, by expressing each hinted Sentiment at length & as fully as it had... | |
 | Christopher Looby - 1996 - 304 pages
...Writing excellent, & wish'd if possible to imitate it. With that View, I took some of the Papers, & making short Hints of the Sentiment in each Sentence,...a few Days, and then without looking at the Book, tryM to compleat the Papers again, by expressing each hinted Sentiment at length & as fully as it had... | |
 | Myra Jehlen, Michael Warner - 1997 - 1148 pages
...Writing excellent, & wish'd if possible to imitate it. With that View, I took some of the Papers, & ds, and a company try'd to compleat the Papers again, by expressing each hinted Sentiment at length & as fully as it... | |
 | Michael T. Gilmore - 1998 - 230 pages
...of The Spectator. I thought the Writing excellent, and wish'd 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 it... | |
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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... 
