 Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves ; but I give it fair quarter wherever I meet with it, being persuaded that it is often productive of good to the possessor, and to others...  Some Verdicts of History Reviewed - Page 297by William Stebbing - 1887 - 416 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1818 - 558 pages
...introductory words " Jf'itliout vanity I may say," &c. but some vain thing immediately followed. Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have...productive of good to the possessor, and to others who arc within his sphere of action : and therefore, in many cases, it would not be altogether absurd,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1834 - 682 pages
...introductory words " Without vanity I may say," &c., but some vain thing immediately followed. Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have...productive of good to the possessor, and to others who are within his sphere of action : and therefore, in many cases, it would not be altogether absurd,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 674 pages
...introductory words, " Without vanity I may say," &,c., but some vain thing immediately followed. Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have...productive of good to the possessor, and to others who are within his sphere of action ; and therefore in many cases it would not be altogether absurd,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1840 - 664 pages
...introductory words, " Without vanity I may say," &.C., but some vain thing immediately followed. Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have...productive of good to the possessor, and to others who are within his sphere of action ; and therefore in many cases it would not be altogether absurd,... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 842 pages
...introductory words, 'Without vanity I may say,' &c., but some vain thing immediately followed. Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have...productive of good to the possessor, and to others who are within his sphere of action ; and therefore, in many cases, it would not be altogether absurd,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - Statesmen - 1848 - 676 pages
...introductory words, "Without vanity I may say," &,c., but some vain thing immediately followed. Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have...productive of good to the possessor, and to others who are within his sphere of action ; and therefore in many cases it would not be altogether absurd,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Almanacs - 1849 - 78 pages
...introductory words " Without vanity I may say," &c., but some vain thing immediately followed. Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have...productive of good to the possessor, and to others who are within his sphere of action : and therefore, in many cases, it would not be altogether absurd... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - Anecdotes - 1850 - 196 pages
...been reproved by nobody but his lordship !" CURIOUS REMARK ON VANITY. Franklin says : " Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have...productive of good to the possessor, and to others who are within his sphere of action ; and therefore, in many cases, it would not be altogether absurd... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - Anecdotes - 1853 - 252 pages
...nobody but his lordship!" — King's Memoirs. CURIOUS REMARK ON VANITY. Franklin says : " Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have...productive of good to the possessor, and to others who are within his sphere of action ; and therefore, in many cases, it would not be altogether absurd... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Inventors - 1853 - 522 pages
...introductory words, " Without vanity I may say," &c., but some vain thing immediately followed. Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have...productive of good to the possessor, and to others who are within his sphere of action; and therefore in many cases it would not be altogether absurd,... | |
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