 ... a speckled ax was best." For something that pretended to be reason was every now and then suggesting to me that such extreme nicety as I exacted of myself might be a kind of foppery in morals, which if it were known would make me ridiculous; that...  Spirit of the English Magazines - Sayfa 3311818Tam görünüm - Bu kitap hakkında
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1908 - 430 sayfa
...to me that such extreme nicety as I exacted of myself might be a kind of foppery in morals, which, if it were known, would make me ridiculous ; that...now I am grown old, and my memory bad, I feel very sensibly the want of it. But, on the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1909 - 236 sayfa
...to me that such extream nicety as I exacted of myself might be a kind of foppery in morals, which, if it were known, would make me ridiculous; that a...now I am grown old, and my memory bad, I feel very sensibly the want of it. But, on the whole, tho' I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious... | |
 | 1909 - 236 sayfa
...Henry David Thoreau Earl of Orrey Emerson Henry W. Shaw William Cowper Thomas Carlyle "Sartor Resartw" A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance. A man's social and spiritual discipline must answer to his corporeal. He must lean on a friend who... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1910 - 216 sayfa
...to me that such extreme nicety as I exacted of myself might be a kind of foppery in morals, which, if it were known, would make me ridiculous ; that a perfect character might be attended with che inconvenience of being envied and hated ; and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults in... | |
 | 1911 - 120 sayfa
...the hazards we can run. — Edward Young. v A TRUE friend is forever a friend. — George MacDonald. A BENEVOLENT man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance. — Benjamin Franklin. A SLENDER acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions,... | |
 | Edwin Osgood Grover - 1911 - 72 sayfa
...gives; Whom none can love, whom none can thank, Creation's blot, creation's blank. — Thomas Gibbons BENEVOLENT man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance. — Benjamin Franklin * Jit Jt Iis well that there is no one without a fault, for he would not have... | |
 | Martha Adelaide Holton, Charles Madison Curry - 1914 - 360 sayfa
...reason, was every now and then suggesting to me that such extreme nicety as I exacted of myself might be the inconvenience of being envied and hated; and that...I found myself incorrigible with respect to Order; ux> and now I am grown old, and my memory bad, I feel very sensibly the want of it. But, on the whole,... | |
 | Beatrice Marguerite Victory - 1915 - 200 sayfa
...these travels. Perhaps these may have been mislaid, if made at all, as he says in his Autobiography: "In truth I found myself incorrigible with respect...now I am grown old and my memory bad, I feel very sensibly the want of it." The journey was made in the midst of a very exciting period of his life and... | |
 | Beatrice Marguerite Victory - 1915 - 198 sayfa
...these travels. Perhaps these may have been mislaid, if made at all, as he says in his Autobiography: "In truth I found myself incorrigible with respect...now I am grown old and my memory bad, I feel very sensibly the want of it." The journey was made in the midst of a very exciting period of his life and... | |
 | Asa Don Dickinson - 1916 - 230 sayfa
...to me that such extream nicety as I exacted of myself might be a kind of foppery in morals, which, if it were known, would make me ridiculous; that a...now I am grown old, and my memory bad, I feel very sensibly the want of it. But, on the whole, tho' I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious... | |
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