 Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves ; but I give it fair quarter wherever I meet with it, being persuaded that it is often productive of good to the possessor, and to others...  Some Verdicts of History Reviewed - Seite 297von William Stebbing - 1887 - 416 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 558 Seiten
...introductory words " Jf'itliout vanity I may say," &c. but some vain thing immediately followed. Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have...productive of good to the possessor, and to others who arc within his sphere of action : and therefore, in many cases, it would not be altogether absurd,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1834 - 682 Seiten
...introductory words " Without vanity I may say," &c., but some vain thing immediately followed. Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have...productive of good to the possessor, and to others who are within his sphere of action : and therefore, in many cases, it would not be altogether absurd,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 674 Seiten
...introductory words, " Without vanity I may say," &,c., but some vain thing immediately followed. Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have...productive of good to the possessor, and to others who are within his sphere of action ; and therefore in many cases it would not be altogether absurd,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 664 Seiten
...introductory words, " Without vanity I may say," &.C., but some vain thing immediately followed. Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have...productive of good to the possessor, and to others who are within his sphere of action ; and therefore in many cases it would not be altogether absurd,... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 842 Seiten
...introductory words, 'Without vanity I may say,' &c., but some vain thing immediately followed. Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have...productive of good to the possessor, and to others who are within his sphere of action ; and therefore, in many cases, it would not be altogether absurd,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1848 - 676 Seiten
...introductory words, "Without vanity I may say," &,c., but some vain thing immediately followed. Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have...productive of good to the possessor, and to others who are within his sphere of action ; and therefore in many cases it would not be altogether absurd,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1849 - 78 Seiten
...introductory words " Without vanity I may say," &c., but some vain thing immediately followed. Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have...productive of good to the possessor, and to others who are within his sphere of action : and therefore, in many cases, it would not be altogether absurd... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - 1850 - 196 Seiten
...been reproved by nobody but his lordship !" CURIOUS REMARK ON VANITY. Franklin says : " Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have...productive of good to the possessor, and to others who are within his sphere of action ; and therefore, in many cases, it would not be altogether absurd... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - 1853 - 252 Seiten
...nobody but his lordship!" — King's Memoirs. CURIOUS REMARK ON VANITY. Franklin says : " Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have...productive of good to the possessor, and to others who are within his sphere of action ; and therefore, in many cases, it would not be altogether absurd... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1853 - 522 Seiten
...introductory words, " Without vanity I may say," &c., but some vain thing immediately followed. Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have...productive of good to the possessor, and to others who are within his sphere of action; and therefore in many cases it would not be altogether absurd,... | |
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