 ... a speckled ax was best;" for something, that pretended to be reason, was every now and then suggesting to me that such extream nicety as I exacted of myself might be a kind of foppery in morals, which, if it were known, would make me ridiculous ;...  Franklins̓ Autobiography - Seite 103von Benjamin Franklin - 1910 - 205 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1818 - 502 Seiten
...hich, if it were known, would make me ridiculous; that a perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated ; and that...now I am grown old, and my memory bad, I feel very i'-ni'iiy the want of it. But on the whole, though I never arrived at the .perfection I had been so... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 566 Seiten
...which, if it were known, would make me ridiculous ; that a perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated ; and that...man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep bis friends in countenance. In truth I found myself incorrigible with respect to Order ; and now I... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 566 Seiten
...character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated: and that a benevo* lent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance. In truth I found my self incorrigible with respect to Order; and now I am grown old, and my memory bad, I feel very... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1834 - 682 Seiten
...which if it were known, would make me ridiculous ; that a perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated ; and that...and now I am grown old, and my memory bad, I feel ver}' sensibly the want of it But on the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been... | |
 | Orville Luther Holley - 1848 - 522 Seiten
...might be a kind of foppery in morals, and provoke ridicule ; that a perfect character might incur the inconvenience of being envied and hated ; and that a benevolent man should allow some faults in himself, to keep his neighbors in countenance." But still, though Franklin found himself... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1853 - 522 Seiten
...which, if it were known, would make me ridiculous; that a perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated; and that...myself incorrigible with respect to Order ; and now 1 am grown old, and my memory bud, I fee! very sensibly the want of it. But on the whole, though I... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 Seiten
...which, if it were known, would make me ridiculous ; that a perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated ; and that...I found myself incorrigible with respect to Order i and now I am grown old, and my memory bad, I feel very sensibly the want of it. But, on the whole,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1859 - 680 Seiten
...if it 'were known, would make me ridiculous ; that a perfect character might bi atte:i'lc:I with the inconvenience of being envied and hated ; and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults in him-ïu to keep his friends in countenance, hi treu I found myself incorrigible with respect k Order... | |
 | Robert Kemp PHILP - 1859 - 182 Seiten
...which, if it were known, would make me ridiculous ; that a perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated ; and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults I "Henceforth let us have a care of our words; let us give our voice to wisdom, ever speak to some... | |
 | James Parton - 1864 - 728 Seiten
...two per cent., as by tuy informatloiL'' envied and hated ; and that a benevolent man should allow n few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance....memory bad, I feel very sensibly the want of it." Red tape has been much spoken against in late years ; it is in bad odor everywhere. It is, nevertheless,... | |
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