 | Anna Wierzbicka - 2006 - 374 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. (Franklin 1964, 148) Admittedly, these quotes, which express their authors' confidence in their ability... | |
 | Lorraine Smith Pangle - 2007 - 300 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 in guarding against one Fault, I was often surpriz'd by another. Habit took the Advantage of Inattention.... | |
 | Stuart Bailey, Peter Bilak - 2007 - 198 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 surprized by another; habit took the advantage... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 2007 - 258 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... | |
 | 2007 - 220 páginas
...company might lead me into. As I knew, or thought I knew, what was right and wrong, I did not see why 1 might not always do the one and avoid the other. But...found I had undertaken a task of more difficulty than 1 had imagined. While my care was employ 'd in guarding against one fault, I was often surprised by... | |
 | Brad K. Wilburn - 2007 - 174 páginas
...virtuous. Interestingly enough, Franklin discovers that his presumption was wrong: But I soon found that I had undertaken a task of more difficulty than I had imagined. While my care was cmploy'd in guarding against one fault, I was often surpris'd by another. Habit took the advantage... | |
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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... 
