 | Thomas Charles Blaisdell - 1906 - 428 страници
...the advantage of this change in my manner; the conversations I engaged in went on more pleasantly; the modest way in which I proposed my opinions procured...and join with me when I happened to be in the right. Exercises. Ex. i. Questions for debate or for composition subjects should as a rule be drawn from the... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1909 - 432 страници
...conversations I engag'd in went on more pleasantly. The modest way in which I propos'd my opinions procur'd them a readier reception and less contradiction; I...I was found to be in the wrong, and I more easily prevail'd with others to give up their mistakes and join with me when I happened to be in the right.... | |
 | Byrin K. Elliott - 1911 - 668 страници
...the advantage of this change in my manners ; the conversation I engaged in went on more pleasantly. The modest way in which I proposed my opinions procured...them a readier reception and less contradiction." Franklin was by no means the first to make the discovery of which Sainte Beuve speaks, but no man ever... | |
 | Byron Kosciusko Elliott, William Frederick Elliott - 1911 - 632 страници
...the advantage of this change in my manners; the conversation I engaged in went on more pleasantly. The modest way in which I proposed my opinions procured...them a readier reception and less contradiction." Franklin was by no means the first to make the discovery of which Sainte Beuve speaks, but no man ever... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1912 - 274 страници
...the advantage of thisl5 change in my manner; the conversations I engaged in went on more pleasantly. The modest way in which I proposed my opinions procured...found to be in the wrong, and I more easily prevailed 20 with others to give up their mistakes and join with me when I happened to be in the right. And this... | |
 | William Palmer Smith - 1913 - 396 страници
...found the advantage of this change in my manner; the conversation I engaged in went on more pleasantly. The modest way in which I proposed my opinions procured...and join with me when I happened to be in the right. haps for these fifty years past no one has ever heard a dogmatic expression escape me. And to this... | |
 | Carl Schurz - 1913 - 572 страници
...circumstances his opinion might be right, but in the present case there appeared to be some difference, etc. The modest way in which I proposed my opinions procured them a readier reception and less contradiction. To this habit (after my character for integrity) I think it principally owing that I had early so much... | |
 | Asa Don Dickinson - 1916 - 230 страници
...modest way in which I propos'd my opinions procur'd them a readier reception and less contradition; I had less mortification when I was found to be in the wrong, and I more easily prevail'd with others to give up their mistakes and join with me when I happened to be in the right.... | |
 | Harry Franklin Covington - 1918 - 312 страници
...conversations I engag'd in went on more pleasantly. The modest way in which I propos'd my opinions procur'd them a readier reception and less contradiction; I...I was found to be in the wrong, and I more easily prevail'd with others to give up their mistakes and join with me when I happened to be in the right.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1923 - 328 страници
...contradiction; I had less mortification when I was found to be in the wrong, and I more easily prevail'd with others to give up their mistakes and join with me when I happened to be in the right.y And this mode, which I at first put on with some violence to natural inclination, became at... | |
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I soon found the advantage of this change in my manner; the conversations I engaged in went on more pleasantly. The modest way in which I proposed my opinions procured them a readier reception and less contradiction; I had less mortification when I was... 
