 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 566 pages
...weeks, endeavoured to reduce them into the best order before I began to form the full sentences and complete the subject. This was to teach me method...the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think, that I might in time come to be a tolerable English writer; of which I was extremely ambitious.... | |
 | 1818 - 594 pages
...natural order, as a means of acquiring method in the arrangement of his thoughts. " Thus," says he, " by comparing my work with the original, I discovered...the method or the language ; and this encouraged me to think that I might in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which 1 was extremely ambitious."... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 556 pages
...weeks endeavored to reduce them into the best order, before I began to form the full sentences and complete the subject. This was to teach me method...but I sometimes had the pleasure to fancy, that in particulars of small consequence I had been fortunate enough to improve the method or the language,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 558 pages
...weeks endeavored to reduce them into the best order, befiire I began to form the full sentences and complete the subject. This was to teach me method...thoughts. By comparing my work with the original, 1 discovered many faults and corrected them j but I sometimes had the pleasure to fancy, that in particulars... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1830 - 464 pages
...weeks, endeavoured to reduce them into the best order, before I began to form th« full sentences and complete the subject. This was to teach me method...the method or the language; and this encouraged me to think that I might, in time, come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious."... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1830 - 452 pages
...weeks, endeavoured to reduce them into the best order, before I began to form the full sentences and complete the subject. This was to teach me method...the method or the language ; and this encouraged me to think that I might, in time, come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious."... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1834 - 450 pages
...weeks, endeavoured to reduce them into the best order, before I began to form the full sentences and complete the subject. This was to teach me method...thoughts. By comparing my work with the original, 1 discovered many faults, and corrected them ; but I sometimes had the pleasure to fancy that in certain... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1834 - 682 pages
...weeks endeavoured to reduce them into the best order, before I began to form the full sentences and complete the subject This was to teach me method in...but I sometimes had the pleasure to fancy, that in particulars of small consequence I had been fortunate enough to improve the method or the language,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 666 pages
...weeks endeavoured to reduce them into the best order before I began to form the full sentences and complete the subject. This was to teach me method...the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think, that I might in time come to be a tolerable English writer; of which I was extremely ambitious.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 674 pages
...weeks endeavoured to reduce them into the best order before I began to form the full sentences and complete the subject. This was to teach me method...that, in certain particulars of small consequence, 1 had been fortunate enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think,... | |
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I also sometimes jumbled my 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 the subject. This was to teach me method in the arrangement of the... 
