 | Ralph Lerner - 1994 - 164 páginas
...Inclination, Custom, or Company might lead me into. As I knew, or thought I knew, what was right and wrong, I did not see why I might not always do the one and avoid the other." The shock at being "surpriz'd" by one fault after another drives Franklin to devise a fail-safe method... | |
 | Anders Breidlid - 1996 - 432 páginas
...inclination, custom, or company might lead me into. As I knew, or thought I knew, what was right and wrong, I did not see why I might not always do the...task of more difficulty than I had imagined. While my care was employ'd in guarding against one fault, I was often surprised by another; habit took the advantage... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1998 - 404 páginas
...Inclination, Custom, or Company might lead me into. As I knew, or thought I knew, what was right and wrong, I did not see why I might not always do the...than I had imagined: While my Attention was taken up Care was employ'd in guarding against one Fault, I was often surpriz'd by another. Habit took the Advantage... | |
 | Amy Mandelker, Elizabeth Powers - 1999 - 552 páginas
...inclination, custom, or company might lead me into. As I knew, or thought I knew, what was right and wrong, I did not see why I might not always do the...task of more difficulty than I had imagined. While my care was employ'd in guarding against one fault, I was often surprised by another; habit took the advantage... | |
 | John H. Timmerman - 2002 - 212 páginas
...live without committing any fault at any time. ... As I knew, or thought I knew, what was right and wrong, I did not see why I might not always do the one and avoid the other."- We look askance at such an ethics as an eccentric wishfulness, until we realize that Franklin meant... | |
 | Walter Isaacson - 2005 - 576 páginas
...inclination, custom, or company might lead me into. As I knew, or thought I knew, what was right and wrong, I did not see why I might not always do the...task of more difficulty than I had imagined. While my care was employed in guarding against one fault, I was often surprised by another; habit took the advantage... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 2004 - 446 páginas
...what was right and wrong, I did not see why l might nof always do the one and avoid the other. But l soon found I had undertaken a Task of more Difficulty than I had imagined: While my Care was employ'd in guarding against one Fault, I was often surpriz'd hy another. Hahit took the Advamage... | |
 | Paul M. Zall - 2005 - 330 páginas
...that either Natural Inclination, Custom, or Company might lead me into. As I knew what was right and wrong, I did not see why I might not always do the...than I had imagined. While my Attention was taken 109 up in guarding against one Fault, I was surpriz'd by another. Habit took the Advantage of Inattention.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 2005 - 320 páginas
...inclination, custom, or company might lead me into. As I knew, or thought 1 knew, what was right and wrong, I did not see why I might not always do the one and avoid the other. But 1 soon found I had undertaken a task of more difficulty than I had imagined. While my attention was... | |
 | James O'Toole - 2005 - 362 páginas
...[HENCE] I CONCEIVED OF A BOLD AND ARDUOUS PROJECT AT ARRIVING AT MORAL PERFECTION I SOON FOUND THAT I HAD UNDERTAKEN A TASK OF MORE DIFFICULTY THAN I HAD IMAGINED THO' I NEVER ARRIVED AT THE PERFECTION I HAD BEEN SO AMBITIOUS OF OBTAINING BUT FELL FAR SHORT OF IT,... | |
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It was about this time I conceived the bold and arduous project of arriving at moral perfection. I wished to live without committing any fault at any time ; I would conquer all that either natural inclination, custom, or company might lead me into. As... 
