 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1839 - 246 pages
...would have obliged me to seek for a variety of eyuonymes and have Hindered me master of them. Front this belief. I took some of the tales of the Spectator and tunica them into verse ; and after a time, when I had sufficiently forgotten them, I again converted... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Political science - 1840 - 342 pages
...different lengths for the measure, or of different sounds for the rhyme, would have obliged me to seek for a variety of synonymes, and have rendered me master...converted them into prose. Sometimes, also, I mingled all my summaries together ; and, a few weeks after, endeavoured to arrange them in the best order,... | |
 | Henry Howe - Industrial arts - 1840 - 492 pages
...tended to fix that variety in my mind, and make me master of it. Therefore, I took some of the tales in the Spectator, and turned them into verse ; and after a time, when I had pretty well forgotten the prose, turned them back again. I also sometimes jumbled my collection of... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 674 pages
...tended to fix that variety in my mind, and make me master of it. Therefore I took some of the tales in the Spectator, and turned them into verse ; and, after a time, when I had pretty well forgotten the prose, turned them back again. I also sometimes jumbled my collection of... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Self-culture - 1845 - 778 pages
...tended to fix that variety in my mind, and make me master of it. Therefore, I took some of the tales in the Spectator, and turned them into verse ; and after a time, when I had pretty well forgotten the prose, turned them back again. I also sometimes jumbled my collection of... | |
 | People - 1845 - 348 pages
...tended to fix that variety in my mind, and make me master of it. Therefore I took some of the tales in the Spectator, and turned them into verse ; and after a time, when I had pretty well forgotten the prose, turned them back again. I also sometimes jumbled my collection of... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1846 - 320 pages
...different lengths for the measure, or of different sounds for the rhyme, would have ohliged me to seek for a variety of synonymes, and have rendered me master of them. From this helief, I took some of the tales of the Spectator, and turned them into verse; and after a time, when... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1846 - 250 pages
...different lengths for the measure? or of different sounds for-the rhyme, would have ohliged me to seek for a variety of synonymes and have rendered me master of them. From this helief. I took some of the tales of the Spectator and turned them into verse ; and after a time, when... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesman - 1848 - 312 pages
...different lengths for the measure, or of different sounds for the rhyme, would have obliged me to seek for a variety of synonymes, and have rendered me master...of the tales of the Spectator and turned them into verso; and, after a time, when I had sufficiently forgotten them, I again converted them into prose.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - Statesmen - 1848 - 676 pages
...tended to fix that variety in my mind, and make me master of it. Therefore I took some of the tales in the Spectator, and turned them into verse ; and, after a time, when I had pretty well forgotten the prose, turned them back again. I also sometimes jumbled my collection of... | |
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... for the rhyme would have laid me under a constant necessity of searching for variety, and also have tended to fix that variety in my mind, and make me master of it. Therefore I took some of the tales in the Spectator... 
