 | Benjamin Franklin - Philosophers - 1818 - 566 pages
...something, that pretended to be reason, was every- now and then suggesting to me, that such exireine nicety as I exacted of myself might be a kind of foppery...man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep bis friends in countenance. In truth I found myself incorrigible with respect to Order ; and now I... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1818 - 566 pages
...something, that pretended to be reason, was every now and then suggesting to me, that, such extrerrte nicety as I exacted of myself might be a kind of foppery...inconvenience of being envied and hated: and that a benevo* lent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance. In truth... | |
 | 1818 - 502 pages
...something, that pretended lo be reason, was every now and then suggesting to me, that such extreme uicety as I exacted of myself might be a kind of foppery in morals, « hich, if it were known, would make me ridiculous; that a perfect character might be attended with... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 842 pages
...reason, was every now and then suggesting to me, that such extreme nicety as I exacted of myself i might be a kind of foppery in morals, which, if it were i known, would make me ridiculous; that a perfect character might be attended ifith the inconvenience... | |
 | Orville Luther Holley - Inventors - 1848 - 534 pages
...nicety might be a kind of foppery in morals, and provoke ridicule ; that a perfect character might incur the inconvenience of being envied and hated ; and that a benevolent man should allow some faults in himself, to keep his neighbors in countenance." But still, though Franklin found himself... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Inventors - 1853 - 522 pages
...For something, that pretended to be reason, was every now and then suggesting to me that such extreme nicety as I exacted of myself might be a kind of foppery...myself incorrigible with respect to Order ; and now 1 am grown old, and my memory bud, I fee! very sensibly the want of it. But on the whole, though I... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 pages
...something, that pretended to be -reason, was every now and then suggesting to me, that such extreme nicety as I exacted of myself, might be a kind of...I found myself incorrigible with respect to Order i and now I am grown old, and my memory bad, I feel very sensibly the want of it. But, on the whole,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Horatio Hastings Weld - 1856 - 584 pages
...for something, that pretended to be reason, was every now and then suggesting to me that such extreme nicety as I exacted of myself might be a kind of foppery iu morals, which, if it were known, would make me ridiculous; that a perfect character might be attended... | |
 | Robert Kemp PHILP - 1859 - 182 pages
...something, that pretended to be reason, was every now and then suggesting to me, that such extreme nicety as I exacted of myself might be a kind of foppery...and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults I "Henceforth let us have a care of our words; let us give our voice to wisdom, ever speak to some... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1859 - 680 pages
...something, thit pretended to be reason, was every now and then suggesting to me, that such extreme nicety as I exacted of myself might be a kind of foppery in morah, which if it 'were known, would make me ridiculous ; that a perfect character might bi atte:i'lc:I... | |
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For something, that pretended to be reason, was every now and then suggesting to me that such extreme nicety as I exacted of myself might be a kind of foppery in morals, which, if it were known, would make me ridiculous; that a perfect character might... 
