 | Jesse Torrey - 1824 - 308 pages
...sentence, laid them by a few days, and then without looking at the book, tried to complete the papers again, by expressing each hinted sentiment at length,...before, in any suitable words that should occur to we. 15 Then I compared my Spectator with the original, diseovered some of my faults, and corrected... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1830 - 336 pages
...sentence, laid them by a few days, and then without looking at the book, tried to complete the papers again, by expressing each hinted sentiment at length,...before, in any suitable words that should occur to me. 15 Then I compared my Spectator with the original, discovered some of my faults, and corrected them.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1834 - 682 pages
...sentence, laid them by a few days, and then without looking at the book, .tried to complete the papers again, by expressing each hinted sentiment at length...should occur to me. Then I compared my Spectator with an original, discovered some of my faults, and corrected them. But I found I wanted a stock of words,... | |
 | 1834 - 602 pages
...sentence, l.uil them by a few d.iys; and then, wiiluut looking at the bouk, tried to complete the papers again, by expressing each hinted sentiment at length,...fully as it had been expressed before in any suitable wunis that should occur to me. Then I compared my Spectator with the original, discovered some of my... | |
 | Orville Luther Holley - 1848 - 522 pages
...sentence, laid them by a few days, and then without looking at the book, tried to complete the papers again, by expressing each hinted sentiment at length,...before, in any suitable words that should occur to me. MODE OF FORMING HIS STYLE. 23 Then I compared my Spectator with the original, discovered some of my... | |
 | Orville Luther Holley - 1848 - 534 pages
...been expressed before, in any suitable words that should occur to me. MODE OF FORMING HIS STYLE. 23 Then I compared my Spectator with the original, discovered some of my faults, and corrected them." This practice soon disclosed to him how comparatively limited was his command of language, and the... | |
 | Edward Everett - 1850 - 716 pages
...fully as it stood in the author, and in any suitable words that occurred to him. " I then," says he, "compared my Spectator with the original, discovered some of my faults, and corrected them." He felt, however, that he wanted a stock of words, or readiness in their recollection and use. He remembered... | |
 | Success - 1851 - 362 pages
...sentence, laid them by a few days, and then, without looking at the book, tried to complete the papers again, by expressing each hinted sentiment at length,...discovered some of my faults, and corrected them." What boy of fourteen or fifteen would now, by himself, take all this pains for the improvement of his... | |
 | Samuel Prout Newcombe - 1851 - 398 pages
...book, I tried to complete the paper again, by expressing esch sentiment at length, in suitable words. Then I compared my ' Spectator' with the original,...found I wanted a stock of words, or a readiness in lecol- j lecting and using them. Therefore, I took some of the tales in the ' Spectator,' and turned... | |
 | Popular educator - 1852 - 842 pages
...sentence, laid them by for a few days ; and then, without looking at the book, tried to complete the papers again, by expressing each hinted sentiment at length,...stock of words, or a readiness in recollecting and ueing them, which I thought I should have acquired before that time if I had gone on making verses... | |
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... the papers again, by expressing each hinted sentiment at length, and as fully as it had been expressed before, in any suitable words that should come to hand. Then I compared my Spectator with the original, discovered some of my faults, and corrected... 
