 | Benjamin Franklin - 1806 - 518 Seiten
...facility of recollecting and employing them, which I thought I should by that time have acquired, had 1 continued to make verses. The continual need of words...converted them into prose. Sometimes also I mingled all ray summaries together ; and a few weeks after, endeavoured to arrange them in the best order, before... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1807 - 310 Seiten
...seek for a variety of synonymes, and huve rendered me master of them. Fretn thisbeliefl took some pi' the tales of the Spectator, and turned them into verse...and after a time, when I had sufficiently forgotten tiiem, I again converted them into prose. Sometimes also I mingled all my summaries together ; and... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1809 - 208 Seiten
...have obliged me to seek for a variety of synonymes, and have rendered me master of them. From t his belief, I took some of the tales of the Spectator, and turned them into verso; and after a time, when I had sufficiently forgotton them, I again converted them into prose.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1810 - 292 Seiten
...faults, which I corrected : but I found that I wanted a fund of words, if I may so express myself, and a facility of recollecting and employing them,...verse ; and after a time, when I had sufficiently forgotlen them, I again converted them into prose. Sometimes also I mingled all my summaries together... | |
 | 1812 - 314 Seiten
...or of different sounds for. the rhyme, would have obliged me to seek for a TO. riety of synonyms,- and have rendered me master of them. From this belief,...a time, when I had sufficiently forgotten them, I a, gain converted them into prose. Sometimes also I mingled all my summaries together ; and a few weeks... | |
 | 1812 - 314 Seiten
...measure, or of different sounds for the rhyme, would have obliged me to seek for a ,variety of synonyms,- and have rendered me master of them. From this belief,...of the tales of the Spectator and turned them into Terse ; and -after a time, when I had sufficiently forgotten them, I a, gain converted them into prose.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1817 - 272 Seiten
...measure, or of different sounds for the rhyme, \\ould have obliged me to seek for a variety of synonyma, and have rendered me master of them. From this belief,...again converted them into prose. Sometimes, also, 1 mingled all my summaries together ; and, a few weeks after, endeavoured to ar* range them in the... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 576 Seiten
...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 - 1818 - 566 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Thomas Jones Rogers - 1823 - 376 Seiten
...the same meaning, but of different lengths, for the measure, or of different sounds for the rbyme, would have obliged me to seek for a variety of synonymes,...and turned them into verse: and after a time, when I bai! sufficiently 'orgotten them. I again converted them into prose. Sometimes, also, I mingled all... | |
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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... 
