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...determined to endeavor to 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,...excellent, and wished if possible to imitate it. With that view I took some of the papers, and making short bints of the sentiments in each sentence, laid... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - Philosophers - 1818 - 566 pages
...thence grew more attentive to my manner of writing, and determined to endeavour to 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... | |
| Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1824 - 308 pages
...invited me to see his library, and had the goodness to lend me any books I was desirous of reading. 14 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... | |
| George Lillie Craik - Philosophy - 1830 - 440 pages
...he pursued for that 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,...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... | |
| George Lillie Craik - Knowledge, Theory of - 1830 - 484 pages
...pursued for that 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,...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... | |
| Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1830 - 336 pages
...invited me to see his library, and had the goodness to lend me any books I was desirous of reading. 14 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... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1834 - 682 pages
...thence grew more attentive to my manner of writing, and determined to endeavour to 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... | |
| Henry Howe - Industrial arts - 1840 - 492 pages
...he pursued for that 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,...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... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1840 - 664 pages
...determined to endeavour to 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,...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... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1840 - 668 pages
...thence grew more attentive to my manner of writing, and determined to endeavour to 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... | |
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