... a speckled ax was best"; for something, that pretended to be reason, was every now and then suggesting to me that such extream nicety as I exacted of myself might be a kind of foppery in morals, which, if it were known, would make me ridiculous; that... The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin - Página 159por Benjamin Franklin - 1895 - 287 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1818 - 502 páginas
...be a kind of foppery in morals, « hich, if it were known, would make me ridiculous; that a perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience...now I am grown old, and my memory bad, I feel very i'-ni'iiy the want of it. But on the whole, though I never arrived at the .perfection I had been so... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 566 páginas
...be a kind of foppery in morals, which, if it were known, would make me ridiculous ; that a perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience...man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep bis friends in countenance. In truth I found myself incorrigible with respect to Order ; and now I... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 566 páginas
...be a kind of foppery in morals,, which if it were known, would make me ridiculous ; that a perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated: and that a benevo* lent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance. In truth... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1834 - 682 páginas
...might be a kind of foppery in morals, which if it were known, would make me ridiculous ; that a perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience...and now I am grown old, and my memory bad, I feel ver}' sensibly the want of it But on the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been... | |
| Orville Luther Holley - 1848 - 534 páginas
...nicety might be a kind of foppery in morals, and provoke ridicule ; that a perfect character might incur the inconvenience of being envied and hated ; and that a benevolent man should allow some faults in himself, to keep his neighbors in countenance." But still, though Franklin found himself... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1853 - 522 páginas
...might be a kind of foppery in morals, which, if it were known, would make me ridiculous; that a perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience...myself incorrigible with respect to Order ; and now 1 am grown old, and my memory bud, I fee! very sensibly the want of it. But on the whole, though I... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 páginas
...be a kind of foppery in morals, which, if it were known, would make me ridiculous ; that a perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience...I found myself incorrigible with respect to Order i and now I am grown old, and my memory bad, I feel very sensibly the want of it. But, on the whole,... | |
| Robert Kemp PHILP - 1859 - 182 páginas
...be a kind of foppery in morals, which, if it were known, would make me ridiculous ; that a perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience...and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults I "Henceforth let us have a care of our words; let us give our voice to wisdom, ever speak to some... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1859 - 680 páginas
...morah, which if it 'were known, would make me ridiculous ; that a perfect character might bi atte:i'lc:I with the inconvenience of being envied and hated ;...that a benevolent man should allow a few faults in him-ïu to keep his friends in countenance, hi treu I found myself incorrigible with respect k Order... | |
| James Parton - 1864 - 728 páginas
...two per cent., as by tuy informatloiL'' envied and hated ; and that a benevolent man should allow n few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance....memory bad, I feel very sensibly the want of it." Red tape has been much spoken against in late years ; it is in bad odor everywhere. It is, nevertheless,... | |
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