 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 558 pages
...determined to endeavor to improve my style. About this time I met with an odd volume of the Spectator. I had never before seen any of them. I bought it,...excellent, and wished if possible to imitate it. With that view I took some of the papers, and making short bints of the sentiments in each sentence, laid... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1824 - 308 pages
...any books I was desirous of reading. 14 About this time I met with an odd volume of the Spectator. I had never before seen any of them. I bought it,...excellent, and wished if possible to imitate it. With that view, I took some of the papers, and making short hints of the sentiments in each sentence, laid... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1830 - 484 pages
...pursued for that end. •' About this time," says he, " I met with an odd volume of the Spectator : I had never before seen any of them. I bought it,...excellent; and wished, if possible, to imitate it. With that view, I took some of the papers, and making short hints of the sentiments in each sentence, laid... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1830 - 440 pages
...he pursued for that end. " About this time," says he, " I met with an odd volume of the Spectator : I had never before seen any of them. I bought it,...excellent ; and wished, if possible, to imitate it. With that view, I took some of the papers, and making short hints of the sentiments in each sentence, laid... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1830 - 336 pages
...any books I was desirous of reading. 14 About this time I met with an odd volume of the Spectator. I had never before seen any of them. I bought it,...excellent, and wished if possible to imitate it. With that view, I took some of the papers, and making short hints of the sentiments in each sentence, laid... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1834 - 682 pages
...determined to endeavour to improve my style. About this time I met with an odd volume of the Spectator. I had never before seen any of them. I bought it,...excellent, and wished if possible to imitate it. With that view I took some of the papers, and making short hints of the sentiments in each sentence, laid... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 664 pages
...determined to endeavour to improve my style. About this time, I met with an odd volume of the Spectator. I had never before seen any of them. I bought it,...excellent, and wished if possible to imitate it. With that view, I took some of the papers, and making short hints of the sentiments in each sentence, laid... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 674 pages
...determined to endeavour to improve my style. About this time, I met with an odd volume of the Spectator. I had never before seen any of them. I bought it,...excellent, and wished if possible to imitate it. With that view, I took some of the papers, and making short hints of the sentiments in each sentence, laid... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1840 - 492 pages
...he pursued for that end. " About this time," says he, " I met with an odd volume of the Spectator ; I had never before seen any of them. I bought it,...excellent ; and wished, if possible, to imitate it. With that view, I took some of the papers, and making short hints of the sentiments in each sentence, laid... | |
 | 1842 - 194 pages
...volume of thfi Spectator, a very famous work, published by several English wits in the year 1711. He bought it, read it over and over, and was much delighted with it. This book was now his continual study, and he himself tried to write as much as possible in its very... | |
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I had never before seen any of them. I bought it, read it over and over, and was much delighted with it. I thought the writing excellent, and wished, if possible, to imitate it. 
