 And to this habit (after my character of integrity) I think it principally owing that I had early so much weight with my fellow-citizens when I proposed new institutions, or alterations in the old, and so much influence in public councils when I became...  Franklin's Autobiography - Seite 99von Benjamin Franklin - 1912 - 231 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 556 Seiten
...fellow-citizens, when I proposed new institutions, or alterations in the old; and so much influence in public councils, when I became a member: for I was but a...correct in language, and yet I generally carried my point. In reality there is perhaps no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as Pride; disguise... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 566 Seiten
...hesitation in my choice of words, hardly correct in language, and yet I generally carried my point. In reality there is perhaps no one of our natural...subdue, as Pride ; disguise it, struggle with it, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still aJive, and will every now and then peep out... | |
 | 1822 - 336 Seiten
...fellow-citizens, when I proposed new institutions, or alterations in the old j and so much influence in public councils when I became a member : for I was but a...correct in language, and yet I generally carried my point. In reality there is perhaps no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride : disguise... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1824 - 308 Seiten
...fellow-citizens when I proposed new institutions, or alterations in the old, and so much influence in public councils, when I became a member; for I was but a...correct 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;... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1830 - 336 Seiten
...fellow-citizens when I proposed new institutions, or alterations in the old, and so much influence in public councils, when I became a member; for I was but a...correct 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;... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1834 - 682 Seiten
...fellow-citizens, when I proposed new institutions, or alterations in the old ; and so much influence in public councils, when I became a member : for I was but a...correct in language, and yet I generally carried my point In reality there is perhaps no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as Pride ; disguise... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 674 Seiten
...citizens, when I proposed new institutions or alterations in the old; and so much influence in public councils, when I became a member ; for I was but a...correct in language, and yet I generally carried my point. In reality there is perhaps no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 668 Seiten
...citizens, when I proposed new institutions or alterations in the old; and so much influence in public councils, when I became a member ; for I was but a...correct in language, and yet I generally carried my point. In reality there is perhaps no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 664 Seiten
...hesitation in my choice of words, hardly correct in language, and yet I generally carried my point. In reality there is perhaps no one of our natural...to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will every now and then peep out... | |
 | 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...to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, stifle '.'•: mortify it as much us one pleases, it is still alive, and will every now and then peep... | |
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