 | Benjamin Franklin - 1807 - 310 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1810 - 292 pagina’s
...variety of 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 pagina’s
...variety of 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 pagina’s
...riety of 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 - 1823 - 310 pagina’s
...variety of 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... | |
 | Thomas Jones Rogers - 1823 - 376 pagina’s
...variety of 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 bai! sufficiently 'orgotten them. I again converted them into prose. Sometimes, also, I mingled all... | |
 | 1826 - 422 pagina’s
...variety of 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... | |
 | 1826 - 440 pagina’s
...variety of 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... | |
 | 1834 - 602 pagina’s
...would have laid me tinder constant necessity of searching fur variety, and also have tended to tix that variety in my mind, and make me master of it....some of the tales in The Spectator, and turned them in:u verse : and, after a time, when I had pretty well forgotten the prose, turned them back again.... | |
 | Exemplary and instructive biography - 1836 - 348 pagina’s
...variety of 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 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... 
