 I conceive or apprehend a thing to be so and so; it appears to me, or I should think it so or so, for such and such reasons; or I imagine it to be so; or it is so, if I am not mistaken. This habit, I believe, has been of great advantage to me when I have...  The Writings of Benjamin Franklin - Página 240por Benjamin Franklin - 1905Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Benjamin Franklin - 2003 - 588 páginas
...I should think it so or so, for such and such reasons; or I imagine it to be so; or it is so, if I am not mistaken. This habit, I believe, has been of...men into measures that I have been from time to time engaged in promoting; and, as the chief ends of conversation are to inform or to be informed, to please... | |
 | Bryan-Paul Frost, Jeffrey Sikkenga - 2003 - 852 páginas
...This is what allows Franklin, despite his metaphysical skepticism, to make such sweeping statements l housekeeping is such an experiment. One cannot help but observe that most of the departments (1322). This statement is the culmination of Franklin's critique of disputatiousness and dogmatism... | |
 | Ronald J. Pestritto, Thomas G. West - 2003 - 304 páginas
...code. His condemnation of contentiousness in conversation is explained and justified by the claim that the "chief Ends of Conversation are to inform, or to be informed, to please or to persuade" which purposes are defeated by an overbearing affirmative manner (1322). These purposes govern our... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 2004 - 446 páginas
...me, when I have had oecasion to inculeate my Opinions and persuade Men imo Measures that I have heen from time to time engag'd in promoting. And as the chief Ends of Conversation are to infoem, or to he infoemed, to please or to persuade, I wish wellmeaning sensihle Men would not lessen... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 2005 - 320 páginas
...should not think it, so or so, for such and such reasons; or, / imagine it to be so; or, It is so, if I am not mistaken. This habit, I believe, has been of...men into measures that I have been from time to time engaged in promoting. And as the chief ends of conversation are to inform or to be informed, to please... | |
 | Eve Tavor Bannet, Professor Eve Tavor Bannet - 2005 - 9 páginas
...Greenwood's Grammar in favor of "a Habit of expressing my self in Terms of modest Diffidence" which "has been of great Advantage to me when I have had...occasion to inculcate my Opinions and persuade Men into the Measures that I have been from time to time engag'd in promoting" (16), assumed that William would... | |
 | Paul M. Zall - 2005 - 330 páginas
...And this Habit I believe has been of great Advantage to me, in inculcating my Opinions & persuading Men into Measures that I have been from time to time engag'd in promoting.17 25 BECOMING A JOURNALIST APRIL 1722-SEPTEMBER 1723 Franklin entered the history of American... | |
 | Philip A. Cusick - 2005 - 194 páginas
..."certainly," [or] "undoubtedly" or any other that give the air of positive-ness to an opinion. . . . This has been of great advantage to me when I have had occasion to ... persuade men into measures that I have been . . . promoting. (Franklin, 1793/1958, p. 15) Franklin... | |
 | Brian Tracy, Ron Arden - 2006 - 146 páginas
...with another question to get the other person talking again. CHAPTER 33 Keep the Ball in Their Court The chief ends of conversation are to inform or to be informed, to please or to persuade. —BENJAMIN FRANKLIN harming people keep up their end of the conversation by passing the ball back... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 2007 - 148 páginas
...I should think it so or so, for such and such reasons; or f imagine it to be so; or it is so, if I am not mistaken. This habit, I believe, has been of...or to be informed, to please or to persuade, I wish wellrneaning, sensible men would not lessen their power of doing good by a positive, assuming manner,... | |
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