 | George Prentiss Butler - 1894 - 284 sayfa
...sometimes had the pleasure of fancying that, in certain particulars of small import, I had been lucky enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think I might possibly in . time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious.... | |
 | 1897 - 880 sayfa
...sometimes had the pleasure of faucyingthat, in certain particulars of small import. I had been lucky enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think I might possibly, in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious.... | |
 | Adams Sherman Hill - 1895 - 450 sayfa
...sometimes had the pleasure of fancying that, in certain particulars of small import, I had been lucky enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extreamly ambitious."1... | |
 | Adams Sherman Hill - 1895 - 452 sayfa
...lucky enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extreamly ambitious."1 " All through my boyhood and youth," writes Mr. Stevenson, " I was known and... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1896 - 130 sayfa
...sometimes had the pleasure of fancying that, in certain particulars of small import, I had been lucky enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1896 - 280 sayfa
...sometimes had the pleasure of fancying that, in certain particulars of small import, I had been lucky enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious.... | |
 | Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denney - 1897 - 422 sayfa
...them; but I sometimes had the pleasure to fancy that, in certain particulars of small consequence, I had been fortunate enough to improve the method or...English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious. EXERCISE 53. In the first selection following, fifteen sentences out of a total of twenty-six show... | |
 | Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denney - 1897 - 426 sayfa
...but I sometimes had the pleasure to fancy that, in certain particulars of small consequence, I hud been fortunate enough to improve the method or the...English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious. EXERCISE 53. In the first selection following, fifteen sentences out of a total of twenty-six show... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 556 sayfa
...them. . . . Sometimes I had the pleasure to fancy that in certain particulars of small consequence I had been fortunate enough to improve the method or...which I was extremely ambitious. The time I allotted to writing exercises and for reading was at night, or before work began in the morning, or on Sundays,... | |
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This was to teach me method in the arrangement of thoughts. By comparing my work afterwards with the original, I discovered many faults and amended them; but I sometimes had the pleasure of fancying that, in certain particulars of small import, I had... 
