 | Orville Luther Holley - 1848 - 534 páginas
...ends of conversation are to inform, or to be informed, to please, or to persuade, I wish wellmeaning and sensible men would not lessen their power of doing...In fact, if you wish to instruct others, a positive dogmatical manner in advancing your sentiments, may occasion opposition and prevent a candid attention.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1853 - 522 páginas
...ends of conversation are to inform or to be informed, to please or to persuade, I wish well-meaning and sensible men would not lessen their power of doing...fact, if you wish to instruct others, a positive, dogmatical manner in advancing your sentiments may occasion opposition, and prevent a candid attention.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 páginas
...ends of conversation are to inform or to lie informed, to please or to persuade, I wish well-meaning and sensible men would not lessen their power of doing good by a positive, assuming manner, that seldom tails to disgust, tends to create opposition, and to defeat most of those purposes for which speech... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Epes Sargent - 1866 - 270 páginas
...ends of conversation are to inform or to be informed, to please or to persuade, I wish well-meaning and sensible men would not lessen their power of doing...fact, if you wish to instruct others, a positive, dogmatical manner in advancing your sentiments may occasion opposition, and prevent a candid attention.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1868 - 426 páginas
...ends of conversation are to inform or to be informed, to please or to persuade, I wish well-meaning, sensible men would not lessen their power of doing...disgust, tends to create opposition, and to defeat every one of those purposes for which speech was given to us, to wit, giving or receiving information... | |
 | 1871 - 784 páginas
...mistaken. He says, in later life, that this habit had been of great advantage to him. " I wish wellmeaning, sensible men would not lessen their power of doing...positive assuming manner that seldom fails to disgust, and prevents us from giving or receiving information or pleasure in conversation." We advise our young... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 602 páginas
...ends of conversation are to inform or to be informed, to please or to -persuade, I wish well-meaning, sensible men would not lessen their power of doing...disgust, tends to create opposition, and to defeat every one of those purposes for which speech was given to us, to wit, giving or receiving information... | |
 | Jeremiah Chaplin - 1876 - 416 páginas
...of conversation are to inform or to be informed, to please or to persuade, I wish •well-meaning, sensible men would not lessen their power of doing...disgust, tends to create opposition, and to defeat every one of those purposes for which speech was given to us, to wit, giving or receiving information... | |
 | Samuel Eliot - 1879 - 424 páginas
...ends of conversation are to inform or to be informed, to please or to persuade, I wish well-meaning and sensible men would not lessen their power of doing...fact, if you wish to instruct others, a positive, dogmatical manner in advancing your sentiments may occasion opposition, and prevent a candid attention.... | |
 | William Swinton - 1880 - 694 páginas
...of conversation are to inform or to be informed, 215 to please or to persuade, I wish well-meaning, sensible men would not lessen their power of doing...disgust, tends to create opposition, and to defeat every one of those purposes for which speech was given us — to wit, giving or receiving information... | |
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... believe, has been of great advantage to me when I have had occasion- to inculcate my opinions, and persuade men into measures that I have been from time to time... 
