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" Then I compared my Spectator with the original, discovered some of my faults, and corrected them. But I found I wanted a stock of words, or a readiness in recollecting and using them... "
The Stoddard Library: Eliot-Gladstone - Page 261
by John Lawson Stoddard - 1913
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The pursuit of knowledge under difficulties [by G.L. Craik].

George Lillie Craik - Self-culture - 1845 - 778 pages
...expressed before, in any suitable words that should occur to me. Then I compared my Spectator with the original, discovered some of my faults, and corrected...search 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...
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The Life of Benjamin Franklin: Containing the Autobiography, with Notes and ...

Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - Statesmen - 1848 - 676 pages
...expressed before, in any suitable words that should occur to me. Then I compared my Spectator with the original, discovered some of my faults, and corrected...search 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...
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The Life of Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin - 1850 - 666 pages
...expressed before, in any suitable words that should occur to me. Then I compared my Spectator with the original, discovered some of my faults, and corrected...using them, which I thought I should have acquired befofe that time, if I had gone on making verses ; since the continual search for words of the same...
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Pleasant pages (by S.P. Newcombe). [With suppl., entitled ..., Volume 1

Samuel Prout Newcombe - 1851 - 398 pages
...by expressing esch sentiment at length, in suitable words. Then I compared my ' Spectator' with the original, discovered some of my faults, and corrected...found I wanted a stock of words, or a readiness in lecol- j lecting and using them. Therefore, I took some of the tales in the ' Spectator,' and turned...
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The popular educator, Volumes 1-2; Volume 5

Popular educator - 1852 - 842 pages
...expressed before, in any suitable words that should occur to me. Then I compared my Spectator with the original, discovered some of my faults, and corrected...stock of words, or a readiness in recollecting and ueing them, which I thought I should have acquired before that time if I had gone on making verses...
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The Select Works of Benjamin Franklin: Including His Autobiography

Benjamin Franklin - Inventors - 1853 - 522 pages
...expressed before, in any suitable words that should occur to me. Then I compared my Spectator with the original, discovered some of my faults, and corrected...search 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...
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The Dawning of Genius: Exemplified and Exhibited in the Early Lives of ...

Theodore Alois Buckley - Biography - 1853 - 446 pages
...expressed before, in any suitable words that should occur to me. Then I compared my Spectator with the original, discovered some of my faults, and corrected...search 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...
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The Life of Benjamin Franklin: Written by Himself ; to which is Added His ...

Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 pages
...expressed before, in any suitable words that should occur to me. Then I compared my Spectator with the 'original, discovered some of my faults, and corrected...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...
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The American Encyclopedia of History, Biography and Travel, Comprising ...

W. O. Blake - Biography - 1856 - 1016 pages
...expressed before in any suitable words that should occur to me. Then I compared my Spectator with the original, discovered some of my faults, and corrected...search 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 constant...
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The Popular Educator, Volume 1

1856 - 422 pages
...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...
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