 | Albert Croll Baugh, Paul Cliff Kitchen, Matthew Wilson Black - English language - 1924 - 246 pages
...overconfidence and assertiveness. It is with this in mind that Franklin in his Autobiography explains: "I made it a rule to forbear all direct contradiction...positive assertion of my own. I even forbid myself . . . the use of every word or expression in the language that imported a fix'd opinion, such as certainly,... | |
 | Law - 1921 - 476 pages
...and I commend to your attention the following passage from the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. "I made it a rule to forbear all direct contradiction...undoubtedly, etc., and I adopted instead of them, I conceive, I comprehend, or / imagine, a thing to be so or so ; or it so appears to me at present.... | |
 | William Norwood Brigance - Oratory - 1927 - 352 pages
...convinced me by mentioning several instances, I determined to endeavor to cure myself, if I could. ... 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, the use of every word or exis Whipple, Webster... | |
 | Albert Croll Baugh, Paul Cliff Kitchen, Matthew Wilson Black - English language - 1924 - 444 pages
...overconfidence and assertiveness. It is with this in mind that Franklin in his Autobiography explains: "I made it a rule to forbear all direct contradiction...positive assertion of my own. I even forbid myself . . . the use of every word or expression in the language that imported a fix'd opinion, such as certainly,... | |
 | James Brodrick - Christian saints - 1956 - 386 pages
...success in acquiring tlie reality of this virtue, but I had a good deal witli 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. . . . When another asserted something that I thought an error, I denied myself the pleasure of contradicting... | |
 | Dale Carnegie - Self-Help - 1982 - 308 pages
...contradiction to the sentiment of others, and all positive assertion of my own. I even forbade myself the use of every word or expression in the language that imported a fix'd opinion, such as 'certainly,' 'undoubtedly,' etc., and I adopted, instead of them, 'I conceive,'... | |
 | John Beebe - Philosophy - 1992 - 200 pages
...the Reality of this Virtue; but I had a good deal with regard to the Appearance of it." He tells us: I made it a Rule to forbear all direct Contradiction...positive Assertion of my own. I even forbid myself . . . the Use of every Word or Expression in the Language that imported a fix'd Opinion; such as certainly,... | |
 | Various - History - 1994 - 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...word or expression in the language that imported a fix'd opinion, such as certainly, undoubtedly, etc., and I adopted, instead of them, / conceive, I... | |
 | Donald E. Pease - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 340 pages
...good deal with regard to the Appearance of it. l made it a Rule to forbear all direct Contradictions to the Sentiments of others, and all positive Assertion of my own. l even forbid myself . . . certainly, undoubtedly, etc. and l adopted instead l conceive, l apprehend,... | |
 | Christopher Looby - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1996 - 304 pages
...also, to perform this mediating function, to settle differences.39 As he said in theAutobiography, he "made it a Rule to forbear all direct Contradiction...Sentiments of others, and all positive Assertion of my own" (p. 1393). This was done in accordance with the policy of his Junto, the mutual aid and self-help group... | |
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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.... 
