 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 814 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 - 1875 - 602 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, John Bigelow - 1875 - 579 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... | |
 | 1877 - 972 pages
...About this time I met with an old 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... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1877 - 982 pages
...About this time I met with an old 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... | |
 | William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - 1878 - 508 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... | |
 | 1879 - 244 pages
...end. 'About this time,' says he, '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... | |
 | Samuel Eliot - 1879 - 424 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... | |
 | William Swinton - 1880 - 694 pages
...great noise. What is the figure of speech? (See Def. 20.) 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, 175 making short hints of the sentiment in each sentence,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1881 - 648 pages
...end. 'About this time,' says he, ' 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... | |
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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. 
