 And to this habit (after my character of integrity) I think it principally owing that I had early so much weight with my fellow-citizens when I proposed new institutions, or alterations in the old, and so much influence in public councils when I became...  Franklin's Autobiography - Page 99by Benjamin Franklin - 1912 - 231 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1818 - 556 pages
...fellow-citizens, when I proposed new institutions, or alterations in the old; and so much influence in public councils, when I became a member: for I was but a...correct in language, and yet I generally carried my point. In reality there is perhaps no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as Pride; disguise... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1818 - 566 pages
...hesitation in my choice of words, hardly correct in language, and yet I generally carried my point. In reality there is perhaps no one of our natural...subdue, as Pride ; disguise it, struggle with it, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still aJive, and will every now and then peep out... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1822 - 336 pages
...fellow-citizens, when I proposed new institutions, or alterations in the old j and so much influence in public councils when I became a member : for I was but a...correct in language, and yet I generally carried my point. In reality there is perhaps no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride : disguise... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1824 - 308 pages
...fellow-citizens when I proposed new institutions, or alterations in the old, and so much influence in public councils, when I became a member; for I was but a...correct in language, and yet I generally carried my point. 40 In reality there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride;... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1830 - 336 pages
...fellow-citizens when I proposed new institutions, or alterations in the old, and so much influence in public councils, when I became a member; for I was but a...correct in language, and yet I generally carried my point. . , 40 In reality there is, perhaps, no. one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride;... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1834 - 682 pages
...fellow-citizens, when I proposed new institutions, or alterations in the old ; and so much influence in public councils, when I became a member : for I was but a...correct in language, and yet I generally carried my point In reality there is perhaps no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as Pride ; disguise... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 674 pages
...citizens, when I proposed new institutions or alterations in the old; and so much influence in public councils, when I became a member ; for I was but a...correct in language, and yet I generally carried my point. In reality there is perhaps no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1840 - 668 pages
...citizens, when I proposed new institutions or alterations in the old; and so much influence in public councils, when I became a member ; for I was but a...correct in language, and yet I generally carried my point. In reality there is perhaps no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1840 - 664 pages
...hesitation in my choice of words, hardly correct in language, and yet I generally carried my point. In reality there is perhaps no one of our natural...to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will every now and then peep out... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 842 pages
...in acquiring the reality of this virtue, but i had a good deal with regard to the appearance of it. In reality there is, perhaps, no one of our natural...to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, stifle '.'•: mortify it as much us one pleases, it is still alive, and will every now and then peep... | |
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