 | 1818 - 590 страници
...prevailed upon to attend for five Sundays successively; but he proved to be a bad preacher; and besides never inculcated or enforced a single moral principle....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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 566 страници
...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 страници
...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 - 638 страници
...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 страници
...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 - 628 страници
...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 страници
...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 страници
...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... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1830 - 336 страници
...perfection: catalogueand illustrations of the moral virtues: art of virtue. 1 It was about this time I conceived the bold and arduous project of arriving...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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1834 - 682 страници
...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 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... 
