 ... 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
 | Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 sayfa
...RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1 803-82), US essayist, poel. philosopher. English Traits, "Cockayne' (185Ы2 of this sport; BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1 706-90), US statesman, wriler. Autobiography, ch. 6 (wrilten 1 771 -90, published... | |
 | L. Rust Hills - 1993 - 276 sayfa
...best. " Franklin finally settled for a speckled morality because, as he says, among other reasons, "a benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance." It was Industry, anyway, that was really always the big virtue with Franklin. Even though he puts Industry... | |
 | Various - 1994 - 676 sayfa
...every fault I found upon examination to have been committed respecting that virtue upon that day. . . . 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. But, on the whole, tho' I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious... | |
 | Ralph Lerner - 1994 - 164 sayfa
...him to becoming an object of derision, envy, and hate. The ironical conclusion is vintage Dr. Janus: "a benevolent Man should allow a few Faults in himself, to keep his Friends in Countenance." 20 At how many points might one enter into this account and find matter for speculation! A public-spirited... | |
 | Nian-Sheng Huang - 1994 - 304 sayfa
...unnecessary. Insisting that "« speckled Ax was best" he excused himself and became cynical enough to say: "A perfect Character might be attended with the Inconvenience of being envied and hated; and that benevolent Man should allow a few Faults in himself, to keep his Friends in Countenance."58 Franklin... | |
 | Anders Breidlid - 1996 - 428 sayfa
...etc. . . . I determined to give a week's strict attention to each of the virtues successively. . . . 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. But, on the whole, tho' I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1998 - 404 sayfa
...to me, that such extream Nicety as I exacted of my self 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 the Inconveninence of being envied and hated; and that a benevolent Man should allow a few Faults in himself,... | |
 | Amy Mandelker, Elizabeth Powers - 1999 - 552 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... | |
 | Kerry S. Walters - 1999 - 236 sayfa
...to "disorderliness," Franklin's expression for lack of discipline. He tells us in his memoirs that "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." 50 One suspects that this is not a ploy on the old man's part to bask in... | |
 | James Campbell - 1999 - 316 sayfa
...so pervasive that he even considered rationalizing his weakness as a kind of virtue. As he writes, "a benevolent Man should allow a few Faults in himself, to keep his Friends in Countenance" (A:155-56).12 In a less jocular mood, he reported that his lack of order continued to haunt him, especially... | |
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