| Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 558 páginas
...further 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...and to conquer all that either natural inclination, custom, or company, might lead me into. As 1 knew, or thought I knew, what was right and wrong, 1 did... | |
| 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...and to conquer all that either natural inclination, custom, or company might lead me into. On the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had... | |
| 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...and to conquer all that either natural inclination, custom, or company, might lead me into. As I knew, or thought 1 knew, what was right and wrong, 1 did... | |
| 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
...further 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...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 - 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,... | |
| 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 all that either natural inclination, custom, or company, might lead me into." He set about this hopeless task, and resumed it at different... | |
| 1822 - 336 páginas
...III. OF DR. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN FOR ATTAINING MORAL PERFECTION, AND REGULATING THE EMPLOYMENT OF TIME. ABOUT this time I conceived the bold and arduous project...and to conquer all that either natural inclination, custom, or company, might lead me into. As I knew, or thought I knew, what was right or wrong, I did... | |
| 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...and to conquer all that either natural inclination, custom or company, might lead me into. 2 As I knew, or thought I knew what was right and wrong, I did... | |
| Jesse Torrey - 1830 - 336 páginas
...of 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...and to conquer all that either natural inclination, custom or company, might lead me into. 2 As I knew, or thought I ,knew what was right and wrong, I... | |
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