Sees but a part o' the chain, the nearest link : His eyes not carrying to the equal beam, That poises all above ; " and from the attributes of God, His infinite wisdom, goodness and power, concluded that nothing could possibly be wrong in the world, and... Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin - Seite 23von Benjamin Franklin - 1859Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 566 Seiten
...all men 88 MEMOIRS OP PART I. and which from the attributes of God, his infinite wisdom, goodness, and power, concluded that nothing could possibly be...reasonings. I grew convinced that truth, sincerity, and integrity, in dealings between man and man, were of the utmost importance to the felicity of life ;... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 558 Seiten
...disgusted me, and I quitted that kind of reading and study for others more satisfactory." goodness and power, concluded that nothing could possibly be...so clever a performance as I once thought it; and 1 doubted whether some error had not insinuated itself unpAreived into my argument, so as to infect... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 556 Seiten
...distinctions, no such things existing; appeared now not so clever a performance as I once thought it; and 1 doubted whether some error had not insinuated itself...reasonings. I grew convinced that truth, sincerity, and integrity, in dealings between man and man, were of the utmost importance to the felicity of life;... | |
| 1818 - 594 Seiten
...entitled " The Infallibility of Human Judgment." Its object was to prove, from the attributes of God, that nothing could possibly be wrong in the world,...were empty distinctions, no such things existing. He afterwards became convinced that truth, sincerity, and integrity in dealings between man and man,... | |
| 1834 - 500 Seiten
...began to suspect that this doctrine, though it might be true, was not very useful. " My London pamphlet appeared now not so clever a performance as I once...reasonings. I grew convinced that truth, sincerity, and integrity, in dealings between man and man, were of the utmost importance lo the felicity of life ;... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 664 Seiten
...Lyons, author of the Infallibility of Human Judgment, who was at that time another of my acquaintthought it ; and I doubted whether some error had not insinuated...reasonings. I grew convinced, that truth, sincerity, and integrity, in dealings between man .and man, were of the utmost importance to the felicity of life;... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 674 Seiten
...beam, That poises all above;" and which from the attributes of God, his infinite wisdom, goodness, and power, concluded that nothing could possibly be...appeared now not so clever a performance as I once • Dr. Franklin, in a letter to Benjamin Vaughan, dated November 9th, 1779, gives a further account... | |
| Anna Maria Hall - 842 Seiten
...beam, That poises all above ;' and which, from the attributes of God, his infinite wisdom, goodness, and power, concluded that nothing could possibly be...existing ; appeared now not so clever a performance us 1 once thought it ; and I doubted whether some error had not insinuated itself unperceiral into... | |
| Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1848 - 676 Seiten
...beam,* That poises all above;" and which from the attributes of God, his infinite wisdom, goodness, and power, concluded that nothing could possibly be...appeared now not so clever a performance as I once * Dr. Franklin, in a letter to Benjamin Vaughan, dated November 9th, 1779, gives a further account... | |
| 1852 - 672 Seiten
...Nature. The object was to prove, from the attributes of God, his infinite wisdom, goodness, and power, that nothing could possibly be wrong in the world...were empty distinctions, no such things existing. He printed, he says, only a hundred copies, of which he gave a few to his friends ; and afterwards... | |
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