![]() ![]() ![]() Then I compared my "Spectator" with the original, discovered some of my faults, and corrected them. With this view, I took some of the papers, and, making short hints of the sentiment in each sentence, laid them by a few days, and then, without looking at the book, tried to complete the papers again, by expressing each hinted sentiment at length, and as fully as it had been expressed before, in any suitable words that should come to hand. I thought the writing excellent, and wished, if possible, to imitate it. I bought it, read it over and over, and was much delighted with it. About this time I met with an odd volume of the "Spectator." It was the third.From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books. ![]()
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