 | Benjamin Franklin - Philosophers - 1818 - 566 pages
...success in acquiring the reality of this virtue, but I had a good deal with regard to the appearance of it. I made it a rule to forbear all direct contradiction...a fixed opinion ; such as certainly, undoubtedly, fyc. and I adopted instead of them, / conceive, I apprehend, or / imagine, a thing to be so, or so... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1818 - 566 pages
...success i» acquiring the reality of this virtue, but I had a good deal with regard to the appearance of it. I made it a rule to forbear all direct contradiction...sentiments of others, and all positive assertion of mine owh. I even forbid myself, agreeably to the old laws of our Junto, the use of every word or expression... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1818 - 556 pages
...success in acquiring the reality of this virtue, but I had a good deal with regard to the appearance of it. I made it a rule to forbear all direct contradiction to the sentiments of others, and all positive assert ion of mine own. I even forbid myself, agreeably to the old laws of our Junto, the use of every... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1822 - 336 pages
...success in acquiring the reality of this virtue, but I had a good deal with regard to the appearance of it. I made it a rule to forbear all direct contradiction...others, and all positive assertion of my own. I even forbade myself, agreeably to the old laws of our Junto (a club formed, by Franklin at Philadelphia),... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1824 - 308 pages
...success in acquiring the reality of this virtue, but I had a good deal with regard to the appearance of it. I made it a rule to forbear all direct contradiction...of others, and all positive assertion of my own. I soon found the advantage of this change in my manners; the conversations I engaged in went on more... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1830 - 336 pages
...success in acquiring the reality of this virtue, but I had a goqd deal with regard to the appearance of it. I made it a rule to forbear all direct contradiction...sentiments of others, and all positive assertion of my own. 1 soon found the advantage of this change in my manners ; the conversations I engaged in went on more... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1834 - 682 pages
...success in acquiring the reality of this virtue, but I had a good deal with regard to the appearance of it. I made it a rule to forbear all direct contradiction...sentiments of others, and all positive assertion of mine own. I even forbid oysel£ agreeably to the old laws of our Junto, the use of every word or expression... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 674 pages
...success in acquiring the reality of this virtue, but I had a good deal with regard to the appearance of it. I made it a rule to forbear all direct contradiction...a fixed opinion ; such as certainly, undoubtedly, &,c., and I adopted instead of them, 1 conceive, I apprehend, or / imagine, a thing to be so 01 so... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - Statesmen - 1848 - 676 pages
...success in acquiring the reality of this virtue, but I had a good deal with regard to the appearance of it. I made it a rule to forbear all direct contradiction...a fixed opinion ; such as certainly, undoubtedly, &.c., and I adopted instead of them, 1 conceive, I apprehend, or / imagine, a thing to be so 01 so... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Inventors - 1853 - 522 pages
...success in acquiring the reality of this virtue, but I had a good deal with regard to the appearance of it. I made it a rule to forbear all direct contradiction...myself, agreeably to the old laws of our Junto, the success. The materials have been growing ever since. The form only is now to be given ; in which I... | |
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I cannot boast of much success in acquiring the reality of this virtue, but I had a good deal with regard to the appearance of it. I made it a rule to forbear all direct contradiction to the sentiments of others, and all positive assertion of my own.... 
