 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 558 էջ
...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 them by a...search for words of the same import, but of different lengths, to suit the measure, or of different sounds for the rhyme, would have laid me under a constant... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 556 էջ
...book, tried to complete the papers again, by expressing each hinted sentiment at length and as fully us it had been expressed before in any suitable words...search for words of the same import, but of different lengths, to suit the measure, or of different sounds for the rhyme, would have laid me under a constant... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1834 - 682 էջ
...expressed before in any suitable words that should occur to me. Then I compared my Spectator with an original, discovered some of my faults, and corrected...verses ; since the continual search for words of the saine import, but of different lengths, to suit the measure, or of different sounds for the rhyme,... | |
 | 1834 - 602 էջ
...Spectator with the original, discovered some of my faults, and corrected them. But I found I wanted a stuck of words, or a readiness in recollecting and using...gone on making verses; since the continual search fur words of the same import, but of different length, to suit the measure, or of different sound,... | |
 | Popular educator - 1852 - 842 էջ
...and corrected them. But I found I wanted a stock of words, or a readiness in recollecting and ueing them, which I thought I should have acquired before...continual search for words of the same import, but of difieren t length, to suit the measure, or of different sound for the rhyme, would have laid me under... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 էջ
...attentive to my manner of writing, and determined to endeavor to improve my style. About this time, I met with an odd volume of the Spectator. I had never...that time, if I had gone on making verses ; since the continued search for words of the same import, but of different length to suit the measure, or of different... | |
 | 1856 - 422 էջ
...words that should occur to me. Then I compared my Spectator with the original, discovered gome of ray faults, and corrected them. But I found I wanted a...thought I should have acquired before that time if I had gon? on making verses; since the continual search for •words of the same import, but of different... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1859 - 680 էջ
...compared my Spectator with an original, discovered some of my faults, ami corrected them. But I found 1 wanted a stock of words, or a readiness in recollecting...search for words of the same import, but of different lengths, to suit the measure, or of different sounds for the rhyme, would have laid me under a constant... | |
 | George Washington Greene - 1865 - 518 էջ
...with an enthusiasm tempered by judgment. Let me give you the story in his own words. " About this time I met with an odd volume of the ' Spectator.' I had...before that time, if I had gone on making; verses, O CT ' since the continual search for words of the same import, but of different length to suit the... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1868 - 426 էջ
...been expressed before, in any suitable words that should come to hand. Then I compared my Spectato r with the original, discovered some of my faults, and...I had gone on making verses ; since the continual occasion for words of the same import, but of different length, to suit the measure, or of different... | |
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I had gone on making verses ; since the continual occasion for words of the same import, but of different length, to suit the measure, or of different sound for the rhyme, would have laid me under a constant necessity of searching for variety, and also... 
