| Benjamin Franklin - 1909 - 432 Seiten
...for self-examination, and continu'd it with occasional intermissions for some time. I was surpris'd to find myself so much fuller of faults than I had...new ones in a new course, became full of holes, I transferr'd my tables and precepts to the ivory leaves of a memorandum book, on which the lines were... | |
| Michael Francis O'Reilly (in religion Potamian), James Joseph Walsh - 1909 - 438 Seiten
...naively tells us the result of this exercise of daily introspection in these words: "I am surprised to find myself so much fuller of faults than I had...but I had the satisfaction of seeing them diminish." The evening examination of conscience was always concluded by the following prayer written by Franklin... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1909 - 236 Seiten
...for selfexamination, and continued it with occasional intermissions for some time. I was surprised to find myself so much fuller of faults than I had...imagined; but I had the satisfaction of seeing them dimmish. To avoid the trouble of renewing now and then my little book, which, by scraping out the marks... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1910 - 216 Seiten
...for self-examination, and continued it, with occasional intermissions, for some time. I was surprised to find myself so much fuller of faults than I had...new ones in a new course, became full of holes, I transferred my tables and precepts to the ivory leaves of a memorandum book, on which the lines were... | |
| Charles McKenny - 1910 - 200 Seiten
...optimism have saved millions. AVe shall not reach perfection, nor did Franklin. He says, "I was surprised to find myself so much fuller of faults than I had...imagined; but I had the satisfaction of seeing them diminished." Franklin's satisfaction may be ours if we strive as wisely and unremittingly as did he.... | |
| Asa Don Dickinson - 1916 - 230 Seiten
...for self-examination, and continu'd it with occasional intermissions for some time. I was surpris'd to find myself so much fuller of faults than I had...new ones in a new course, became full of holes, I transferr'd my tables and precept to the ivory leaves of a memorandum book, on which the lines were... | |
| James Madison Stifler - 1925 - 176 Seiten
...for self-examination, and continu'd it with occasional intermissions for some time. I was surpris'd to find myself so much fuller of faults than I had...but I had the satisfaction of seeing them diminish." The writer has no desire to make out a "case" for Franklin, but the query has often arisen in his mind... | |
| Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - 1926 - 928 Seiten
...for self-examination, and continued it with occasional intermissions for some time. I was surprised to find myself so much fuller of faults than I had...new ones in a new course, became full of holes, I transferred my tables and precepts to the ivory leaves of a memorandum book, on which the lines were... | |
| Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 Seiten
...for self-examination, and continued it with occasional intermissions for some time. I was surprised to find myself so much fuller of faults than I had...new ones in a new course, became full of holes, I transferred my tables and precepts to the ivory leaves of a memorandum book, on which the lines were... | |
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