 | William Cobbett - 1819 - 198 sayfa
...meaning, plain. Never think of mending what you write. Let it go. No patching ; no afler-pointing. As your pen moves, bear constantly in mind, that it...making strokes which are to remain for ever. Far, 1 hope, from my dear JameS) •will be the ridiculous, the contemptible, affectation, of writing in... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1832 - 228 sayfa
...write, bear constantly in mind, that some one is to read and to understand what you write. This will 7* make your hand-writing, and also your meaning, plain....constantly in mind that it is making strokes which are to remainder ever. Far, I hope, from my dear James, will be the ridiculous, the contemptible affectation,... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1842 - 248 sayfa
...meaning, plain. Never think of mending what you write. Let it go. | No patching; no after pointing. As your pen moves, bear constantly in mind that it...making strokes which are to remain for ever. Far, I hone, from my dear James will be the ridiculous, the contemptible affectation, of writing in a slovenly... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1851 - 1502 sayfa
...of Meum and Tuum. Said Cobbett, " Never think of mending what you write : let it go ; no patching. As your pen moves, bear constantly in mind that it is making strokes that are to remain forever." We may keep the Devil without the swine, but not the swine without the... | |
 | William Bradford Reed - 1853 - 358 sayfa
...more than once Cobbett's striking remark, quoted in Archdeacon Hare's Guesses at Truth, p. 208 : " As your pen moves, bear constantly in mind that it is making strokes that are to remain for ever." The number of letters which are preserved is one hundred and eighty-three.... | |
 | 1854 - 104 sayfa
...— Peabody. Cobbett's rule is, " Never think of mending what you write ; let it go ; no patching. As your pen moves, bear constantly in mind that it is making strokes which are to remain for ever." Did we but keep this conviction steadily before us, with regard to all our thoughts and feelings, and... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1863 - 200 sayfa
...your meaning, ^aj'ra. Never think of mending what you write. Letityo. No patching; no after pointing. As your pen moves, bear constantly in mind that it...be the ridiculous, the contemptible affectation, of writiug in a slovenly or illegible hand ; or, that of signing his name otherwise than in plain letters.... | |
 | Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare - 1867 - 656 sayfa
...with that of Cobbett's great rule : " Never think of mending what you write : let it go : no patching. As your pen moves, bear constantly in mind that it is making strokes which are to remain for ever." The power of habit, he rightly observes, is in such things quite wonderful : and assuredly it is not... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1872 - 530 sayfa
...* But then Cobbett adds, and the addition (sometimes ignored by those who quote him) is material : "As your pen moves, bear constantly in mind that it is making strokes which are to remain for ever." Cobbett's own writings are cited by Archdeacon Hare as a proof of the excellence of his rule : what... | |
 | William Forsyth - 1874 - 620 sayfa
...indeed has laid down the rule — ' Never think of mending what you write : let it go : no patching. As your pen moves, bear constantly in mind that it is making strokes which are to remain for ever.' But independently of the fact that the latter part of this advice seems to nullify the former — for... | |
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Habit is powerful in all cases; but its power in this case is truly wonderful, When you write, bear constantly in mind, that some one is to read and to understand what you write. This will make your handwriting and also your meaning, plain. 
