 | Benjamin Franklin - 1859 - 680 pages
...improve my style. About this time I met with an odd volume of the Spectator. I had never before seen any of them. I bought it, read it over and over, and. was much delighted with ¡LI thought the writing excellent, and wished if possible to imitate it With that view I took some... | |
 | Cecilia Lucy Brightwell - 1863 - 332 pages
...that purpose. " About this time, I met with an odd volume of the ' Spectator.' I had never before seen any of them. I bought it, read it over and over, and...excellent, and wished, if possible, to imitate it. With this view, I took some of the papers, and making short hints of the sentiments in each sentence, laid... | |
 | James Stuart Laurie - 1863 - 328 pages
...Spectator, bought it, and read it over and over with delight. " I thought the writing excellent," he says, " and wished, if possible, to imitate it. With that view, I took some of the papers, and, making short notes of the sentiments in each sentence, laid them by for a few days ; and, without looking at the... | |
 | George Washington Greene - 1865 - 484 pages
...own words. " About this time I met with an odd volume of the ' Spectator.' I had never before seen any of them. I bought it, read it over and over, and...sentiments in each sentence, laid them by a few days, and then, without looking at the book, tried to complete the papers again by expressing each hinted... | |
 | George Washington Greene - 1865 - 486 pages
...own words. " About this time I met with an odd volume of the ' Spectator.' I had never before seen any of them. I bought it, read it over and over, and...sentiments in each sentence, laid them by a few days, and then, without looking at the book, tried to complete the papers again by expressing each hinted... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1865 - 590 pages
..." About this time," he says, " I met with an odd volume of the Spectator ; I had never before seen any of them. I bought it, read it over and over, and...wished, if possible, to imitate it. With that view, 1 took some of the papers, and making short hints of the sentiments in each sentence, laid them by... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1865 - 594 pages
..." About this time," he says, " I met with an odd volume of the Spectator ; I had never before seen any of them. I bought it, read it over and over, and...wished, if possible, to imitate it. With that view, 1 took some of the papers, and making short hints of the sentiments in each sentence, laid them by... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Epes Sargent - 1866 - 270 pages
...improve my style. About this time, I met with an odd volume of the Spectator. I had never before seen any of them. I bought it, read it over and over, and...sentiments in each sentence, laid them by a few days, and then, without looking at the book, tried to complete the papers again, by expressing each hinted... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1868 - 426 pages
...About this time I met with an odd volume of the Spectator. It was the third. I had never before seen any of them. I bought it, read it over and over, and...excellent, and wished, if possible, to imitate it. With this view I took some of the papers, and, making short hints of the sentiment in each sentence, laid... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1868 - 434 pages
...delighted with it. I thought the writing excellent, and wished, if possible, to imitate it. With this view I took some of the papers, and, making short hints of the sentiment in each sentence, laid them by a few days, and then, without looking at the book, try'd to... | |
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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. 
