 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 566 Seiten
...were of argument, and very desirous of confuting one another : which disputatious turn, by the way, is apt to become a very bad habit, making people often...I had caught this by reading my father's books of dispute on Religion. Persons of good sense, I have since observed, seldom fall into it, except lawyers,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 558 Seiten
...were of argument, and very desirous of confuting one another, which disputatious turn, by the way, is apt to become a very bad habit, making people often...conversation, it is productive of disgusts and perhaps cnmilies with those who may have occasion for friendship. I had caught this by reading my father's... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 668 Seiten
...were of argument, and very desirous of confuting one another; which disputatious turn, by the way, is apt to become a very bad habit, making people often...I had caught this by reading my father's books of dispute on religion. Persons of good sense, I have since observed, seldom fall into it, except lawyers,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 674 Seiten
...were of argument, and very desirous of confuting one another; which disputatious turn, by the way, is apt to become a very bad habit, making people often...I had caught this by reading my father's books of dispute on religion. Persons of good sense, I have since observed, seldom fall into it, except lawyers,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1848 - 676 Seiten
...were of argument, and very desirous of confuting one another; which disputatious turn, by the way, is apt to become a very bad habit, making people often...I had caught this by reading my father's books of dispute on religion. Persons of good sense, I have since observed, seldom fall into it, except lawyers,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1850 - 666 Seiten
...were of argument, and very desirous of confuting one another ; which disputatious turn, by the way, is apt to become a very bad habit, making people often...those, who may have occasion for friendship. I had caughtthis by reading my father's books of dispute on religion. Persons of good sense, I have since... | |
 | James Wynne - 1850 - 372 Seiten
...his father's library. After the opportunities afforded by many years of observation, he pronounces it "a very bad habit, making people often extremely disagreeable in company, by the contradictions that is necessary to bring it into practice;" and adds, "persons of good sense, I have... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1853 - 522 Seiten
...were of argument, and very desirous of confuting one another ; which disputatious turn, by the way, is apt to become a very bad habit, making people often...I had caught this by reading my father's books of dispute on religion. Persons of good sense, I have since observed, seldom fall into it, except lawyers,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 Seiten
...were of argument, and very desirous of confuting one another; which disputatious turn, by the way, is apt to become a very bad habit, making people often...I had caught this by reading my father's books of dispute on religion. Persons of good sense, I have since observed, seldom fall into . it, except lawyers,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1856 - 670 Seiten
...confuting one another; which disputatious turn, by the way, is apt to become a very bad habit, malting people often extremely disagreeable in company, by...I had caught this by reading my father's books of dispute on religion. Persons of good sense, I have since observed, seldom fall into it, except lawyers,... | |
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We sometimes disputed, and very fond we were of argument, and very desirous of confuting one another, which disputatious turn, by the way, is apt to become a very bad habit, making people often extremely disagreeable in company by the contradiction that... 
