| Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 566 páginas
...to excuse it ; my present purpose being to relate facts, and not to make apologies for them. It was about this time I conceived the bold and arduous project...into. As I knew, or thought I knew what was right and 1 See Papers on Mistellancous Subjcots, in continuatiou nf these Memoirs. wrong, I did not see... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 556 páginas
...present purpose being to relate facts and not to make apologies for them. It was about this time 1 conceived the bold and arduous project of arriving...company, might lead me into. As I knew, or thought 1 knew, what was right and wrong, 1 did not see why I might not always do the one and avoid the other.... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 558 páginas
...to excuse it ; my present purpose being to relate facts and not to make apologies tor them. It was about this time I conceived the bold and arduous project...inclination, custom, or company, might lead me into. As 1 knew, or thought I knew, what was right and wrong, 1 did not sec why I might qot always do the one... | |
| 1818 - 486 páginas
...being to relate facts, and not to make apologies for them." " About the same time," it is added, " I conceived the bold and arduous project of arriving...inclination, custom, or company might lead me into. On the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell... | |
| 1818 - 590 páginas
...being to relate facts, and not to make apologies for them." " About the same time," it is added, " I conceived the bold and arduous project of arriving...committing any fault at any time, and to conquer all %hat either natural inclination, custom, or company might lead me into. On the whole, though I never... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 566 páginas
...to excuse it; my present purpose being to relate facts, and not to make apologies for them. It was about this time I conceived the bold and arduous project...perfection; I wished to live without committing any fault at anytime, and to conquer all that either natural inclination, custom or company, might lead me into.... | |
| 1818 - 638 páginas
...conceived the bold and arduous project of arriving at moral perfsctiot. '•" I wished to live," he says, " without committing any fault at any time, and to conquer...inclination, custom, or company, might lead me into." He set about this hopeless task, and resumed it at different periods of his life, with all ihe energy... | |
| 1818 - 628 páginas
...the principal events of his life have become matter of history. It was about this time that Franklin conceived the bold and arduous project of arriving at moral perfection. " I wished to live," he says, " without committing any fault at any time, and to conquer all that either natural inclination,... | |
| Jesse Torrey - 1824 - 308 páginas
...the moral virtues: art of virtue. 1 It was about this time I conceived the bold and arduous projectof arriving at moral perfection. I wished to live without...inclination, custom or company, might lead me into. 2 As I knew, or thought I knew what was right and wrong, I did not see why I might not always do the... | |
| Jesse Torrey - 1830 - 336 páginas
...arriving at moral perfection: catalogueand illustrations of the moral virtues: art of virtue. 1 It was about this time I conceived the bold and arduous project...inclination, custom or company, might lead me into. 2 As I knew, or thought I ,knew what was right and wrong, I did not see why I might not always do the... | |
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