one o'clock
The result was , I immediately went to work ; and , disgusted with my first performance , began another . In truth , my too much confidence and haste had made me guilty of many mistakes ; which I knew to be such , the moment my vanity had been a little sobered into common sense . I had often written before , and perhaps never so ill . I now arranged my thoughts , omitted my quotations , discarded many of my metaphors , shortened my periods , simplified my style , reduced the letter to one fourth of its former length , and finished the whole by one o'clock . His lordship was not so fastidious a critic as I thought Turl had been ; he was delighted with my performance . It is true he made some corrections and additions , in places where I had not been so personal and acrimonious , against the minister , as his feelings required ; but , as he accompanied them with praise , I readily submitted ; and , thus improved , my first political essay was committed to the press . _ Further efforts of critical improvement : Doubts of a serious kind suggested : More politics and new acquaintance : A dissertation on rakes _ The critical precepts of Turl were still tingling in my ears ; and as I meant to shew the bishop some of the sermons that I had written , or in other words as many as he should be willing to read , they underwent an immediate revisal .