 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 558 Seiten
...old; and so much influence in public councils, when I became a member: for I was but a bad speaker, never eloquent, subject to much hesitation in my choice...perhaps no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as Pride; disguise it, struggle with it, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is... | |
 | 1822 - 336 Seiten
...old j and so much influence in public councils when I became a member : for I was but a bad speaker, never eloquent, subject to much hesitation in my choice...perhaps no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride : disguise it, struggle with it, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1824 - 308 Seiten
...old, and so much influence in public councils, when I became a member; for I was but a bad speaker, never eloquent, subject to much hesitation in my choice...in language, and yet I generally carried my point. 40 In reality there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride; disguise... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1830 - 336 Seiten
...old, and so much influence in public councils, when I became a member; for I was but a bad speaker, never eloquent, subject to much hesitation in my choice...in language, and yet I generally carried my point. . , 40 In reality there is, perhaps, no. one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride; disguise... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1834 - 682 Seiten
...old ; and so much influence in public councils, when I became a member : for I was but a bad speaker, never eloquent, subject to much hesitation in my choice...perhaps no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as Pride ; disguise it, struggle with it, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 666 Seiten
...old ; and so much influence in public councils, when I became a member ; for I was but a bad speaker, never eloquent, subject to much hesitation in my choice...perhaps no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 674 Seiten
...old; and so much influence in public councils, when I became a member ; for I was but a bad speaker, never eloquent, subject to much hesitation in my choice...perhaps no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 842 Seiten
...in acquiring the reality of this virtue, but i had a good deal with regard to the appearance of it. In reality there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, stifle '.'•: mortify it as much us one pleases, it... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1848 - 676 Seiten
...old; and so much influence in public councils, when I became a member ; for I was but a bad speaker, never eloquent, subject to much hesitation in my choice...perhaps no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1853 - 522 Seiten
...old; and so much influence in public councils, when I became a member; for I was but a bad speaker, never eloquent, subject to much hesitation in my choice...perhaps no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is... | |
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I was but a bad speaker, never eloquent, subject to much hesitation in my choice of words, hardly correct in language, and yet I generally carried my point. 
