 | 1818 - 708 страница
...being to relate facts, and not to make apologies for them." " About the same time," it is added, " I conceived the bold and arduous project of arriving...the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection 1 had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet I was by the endeavour a better... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 566 страница
...my present purpose being to relate facts, and not to make apologies for them. It was about this time I conceived the bold and arduous project of arriving...inclination, custom or company, might lead me into. As I knew, or thought I knew what was right and 1 See Papers on Mistellancous Subjcots, in continuatiou... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 556 страница
...present purpose being to relate facts and not to make apologies for them. It was about this time 1 conceived the bold and arduous project of arriving...inclination, custom, or company, might lead me into. As I knew, or thought 1 knew, what was right and wrong, 1 did not see why I might not always do the... | |
 | 1818 - 590 страница
...being to relate facts, and not to make apologies for them." " About the same time," it is added, " I conceived the bold and arduous project of arriving...committing any fault at any time, and to conquer all %hat either natural inclination, custom, or company might lead me into. On the whole, though I never... | |
 | 1818 - 638 страница
...conceived the bold and arduous project of arriving at moral perfsctiot. '•" I wished to live," he says, " without committing any fault at any time, and to conquer...inclination, custom, or company, might lead me into." He set about this hopeless task, and resumed it at different periods of his life, with all ihe energy... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 566 страница
...my present purpose being to relate facts, and not to make apologies for them. It was about this time I conceived the bold and arduous project of arriving...perfection; I wished to live without committing any fault at anytime, and to conquer all that either natural inclination, custom or company, might lead me into.... | |
 | 1818 - 502 страница
...respect to Order ; and 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 ambitious of , but ft- 11 far short of it, yet I was by the endeavour a better and a happier man than I otherwise... | |
 | 1818 - 628 страница
...the principal events of his life have become matter of history. It was about this time that Franklin conceived the bold and arduous project of arriving at moral perfection. " I wished to live," he says, " without committing any fault at any time, and to conquer all that either natural inclination,... | |
 | 1822 - 336 страница
...BENJAMIN FRANKLIN FOR ATTAINING MORAL PERFECTION, AND REGULATING THE EMPLOYMENT OF TIME. ABOUT this time I conceived the bold and arduous project of arriving...inclination, custom, or company, might lead me into. As I knew, or thought I knew, what was right or wrong, I did not see why I might not always do the... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1824 - 308 страница
...the moral virtues: art of virtue. 1 It was about this time I conceived the bold and arduous projectof arriving at moral perfection. I wished to live without...inclination, custom or company, might lead me into. 2 As I knew, or thought I knew what was right and wrong, I did not see why I might not always do the... | |
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It was about this time I conceived the bold and arduous project of arriving at moral perfection. I wished to live without committing any fault at any time, and to conquer all that either natural inclination, custom or company, might lead me into. As I... 
