 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 558 pages
...Therefore I took some of the tales in the Spectator, and turned them into verse: and after a time, when I had pretty well forgotten the prose, turned...collection of hints into confusion, and after some weeks endeavored to reduce them into the best order, befiire I began to form the full sentences and complete... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1830 - 464 pages
...Therefore, I took some of the tales in the Spectator, and turned them into verse; and after a time, when I had pretty well forgotten the prose, turned them back again. I alto sometimes jumbled my collection of hints into confusion; and, after some weeks, endeavoured to... | |
 | 1834 - 602 pages
...time, when I had pretty well forgotten the prose, turned them back again. I also, sometimesjumbled my collection of hints into confusion, and, after...endeavoured to reduce them into the best order, before 1 began to form the full sentences and complete the subject. This was to teach me method in the arrangement... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1834 - 682 pages
...Therefore I took some of the tales in the Spectator, and turned them into verse : and after a time, when I had pretty well forgotten the prose, turned them back again. Г also sometimes jumbled my collection of hints into confusion, and after some weeks endeavoured to... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1840 - 492 pages
...Therefore, I took some of the tales in the Spectator, and turned them into verse ; and after a time, when I had pretty well forgotten the prose, turned...collection of hints into confusion ; and, after some weeks, endeavored to reduce them into the best order, before I began to form the full sentences and complete... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1850 - 666 pages
...Therefore I took some of the tales in the Spectator, and turned them into verse; and, after a time, when I had pretty well forgotten the prose, turned them back again. I alsq sometimes jumbled my collection of hints into confusion, and after some weeks endeavoured to reduce... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1853 - 522 pages
...Therefore I took some of the tales in the Spectator and turned them into verse; and, after a time, when I had pretty well forgotten the prose, turned...collection of hints into confusion, and after some weeks endeavored to reduce them into the best order before I began to form the full sentences and complete... | |
 | Theodore Alois Buckley - 1853 - 446 pages
...Therefore I took some of the tales in the ' Spectator,' and turned them into verse ; and after a time, when I had pretty well forgotten the prose, turned them back again. I also sometimes jumbled my collections of hints into confusion, and after some weeks endeavoured to reduce them into the best... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 pages
...Therefore I took seme of the tales in the Spectator, and turned them into verse ; and, after%, time, when I had pretty well forgotten the prose, turned...collection of hints into confusion, and after some weeks endeavored to reduce them into the best order, before I began to form the full sentences and complete... | |
 | William O. Blake - 1856 - 1124 pages
...Therefore I took some of the tales in the Spectator, and turned them into verse ; and, after a time, when I had pretty well forgotten the prose, turned...collection of hints into confusion, and, after some weeks, endeavored to reduce them into the best order, before I began to form the full sentences and complete... | |
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... measure, or of different sound for the rhyme, would have laid me under a constant necessity of searching for variety, and also have tended to fix that variety in my mind, and make me master of it. Therefore I took some of the tales and turned them... 
