...my vanity, but my father discouraged me, by criticising my performances, and telling me verse makers were generally beggars. Thus I escaped being a poet,...advancement, I shall tell you how in such a situation, I accquired what little ability I may be supposed to have in that way. There was another bookish lad...

...my vanity ; but my father discouraged me by criticizing my performances, and telling me verse-makers were generally beggars. Thus I escaped being a poet,...probably a very bad one ; but, as prose writing has been tof great use to me in the course of my life, and was a principal means of my advancement, I shall...

...my vanity ; but my father discouraged me by criticising my performances, and telling me versemakers were generally beggars. Thus I escaped being a poet,...to me in the course of my life, and was a principal ireana of my advancement, I shall tell you how, in such a situation, I acquired what little ability...

...generally beggar?. Thus I escaped being a ]>oct, and probably a very bad one : but as prow veiling has been of great use to me in the course of my life,...advancement, I shall tell you how in such a situation, I accquired what little ability I may be supposed to have in that way. There was another bookish lad...

...flattered my vanity ; but my father discouraged me, by criticizing my pieces, and telling me verse-makers were generally beggars. Thus I escaped being a poet, and, probably, a very bad one." He next turned his attention to the composition of prose, of which he afterwards became a consummate...

...my vanity ; but my father discouraged me by criticizing my performances, and telling me verse-makers were generally beggars. Thus I escaped being a poet,...course of my life, and was a principal means of my adf ancement, I shall tell you how in such a situation I acquired what little ability I may be supposed...

...my vanity : but my father discouraged me by criticising my performances, and telling me verse-makers were generally beggars. Thus I escaped being a poet,...great use to me in the course of my life, and was n principal means of my advancement, I shall tell you how, in such a situation, I acquired what little...

...criticizing my performances, and telling me •erse-makers were generally beggars. Thus I escaped t>eing a poet, and probably a very bad one ; but, as prose...writing has been of great use to me in the course jf my life, and was a principal means of my advancement, I shall tell you how in such a situation I...

...my performances, and telling me verse-makers were generally beggars. So I escaped being a poet, most probably a very bad one, but as prose writing has...advancement, I shall tell you how, in such a situation, I Required what little ability I had in that way." Thus the parental argument, though this time without...

...vanity ; but my father discouraged me by criticising my perfomances and telling me that versemakers were generally beggars. Thus I escaped being a poet, and probably a very bad one." From the time that Mr. Franklin criticised his son's argument with John Collins on female education,...