 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 566 頁
...been fortunate enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think, that I might in time come to be a tolerable English writer...morning, or on Sundays, when I contrived to be in the printing house, avoiding as much as I could the constant attendance at public worship, which my father... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 566 頁
...been fortunate enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think, that I might in time come to be a tolerable English writer;...before work began in the morning, or on Sundays, when 1 contrived to be iu the printing bouse, avoiding as much as I could the constant attendance at public... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 556 頁
...been fortunate enough to improve 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. The time I alloted for writing exercises and for reading, was at night, or before work began in the morning, or... | |
 | 1818 - 594 頁
...been fortunate enough to improve 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." Here again his father's good sense was of advantage to him. Some judicious... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1830 - 440 頁
...been fortunate enough to improve 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." Even at this early age nothing could exceed the perseverance and self-denial which he displayed, in... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1830 - 452 頁
...been fortunate enough to improve 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." Even at this early age nothing could exceed the perseverance and self-denial which he displayed, in... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1834 - 682 頁
...been fortunate enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think, that I might in time come to be a tolerable English writer,...at night or before work began in the morning, or on Sunday, when I contrived to be in the printing house, avoiding as much as I could the constant attendance... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 668 頁
...been fortunate enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think, that I might in time come to be a tolerable English writer;...reading, was at night, or before work began in the morn* ing, or on Sundays, when I contrived to be in the printing-house, avoiding as much as I could... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1840 - 492 頁
...been fortunate enough to improve 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." Even at this early age nothing could exceed the perseverance and self-denial which he displayed, in... | |
 | People - 1845 - 348 頁
...been fortunate enough to'improve 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." Even at this early age nothing could exceed the perseverance and selfdenial which he displayed, in... | |
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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 been lucky enough to improve the method or the language, and... 
