 | Benjamin Franklin - 1807 - 310 pages
...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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - American literature - 1810 - 292 pages
...synonymes, and have rendered me master of them. From this belief, I took some of the tales of the Spectator, and turned them into verse ; and after a time, when I had sufficiently forgotlen them, I again converted them into prose. Sometimes also I mingled all my summaries... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...synonymes, and have rendered me master of them. From this belief, I took some of the tales of the Spectator and turned them into verse, and, after a time, when I had sufficiently forgotten them, I again converted them into prose. Sometimes also I mingled all my summaries... | |
 | 1812 - 314 pages
...synonyms,- and have rendered me master of them. From this belief, I took some of the tales of the Spectator and turned them into verse ; and after a time, when I had sufficiently forgotten them, I a, gain converted them into prose. Sometimes also I mingled all my summaries... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1818 - 556 pages
...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...turned them back again. I also sometimes jumbled my collection of hints into confusion, and after some weeks endeavored to reduce them into the best order,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Philosophers - 1818 - 566 pages
...sound 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...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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1818 - 558 pages
...had pretty well forgotten the prose, turned them back again. I also sometimes jumbled my collection of hints into confusion, and after some weeks endeavored to reduce them into the best order, befiire I began to form the full sentences and complete the subject. This was to teach me method in... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1823 - 310 pages
...synonymes, and have rendered me master of them. From this belief I took some of the tales of the Spectator, and turned them into verse ; and after a time, when I had sufficiently forgotten them, I again converted them into prose. Sometimes also I mingled all my summaries... | |
 | United States - 1826 - 422 pages
...synonymes, and have rendered ma master of them. From this belief, I took some of the talesof the Spectator, and turned them into verse ; and after a time, when I had sufficiently forgotten them, I again converted them into prose. " Sometimes also I mingled all my summaries... | |
 | United States - 1826 - 440 pages
...synonymes, and have rendered me master of them. From this belief, I took some of the tales of the Spectator, and turned them into verse ; and after a time, when I had sufficiently forgotten them, I again converted them into prose. " Sometimes also I mingled all my summaries... | |
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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... 
