 ... a speckled ax was best." 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...  Spirit of the English Magazines - Page 3311818Full view - About this book
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1818 - 556 pages
...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...now I am grown old, and my memory bad, I feel very sensibly the want of it. But on the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Philosophers - 1818 - 566 pages
...to me, that such exireine nicety as I exacted of myself might be a kind of foppery in morals, which, if it were known, would make me ridiculous ; that...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
...me, that, such extrerrte nicety as I exacted of myself might be a kind of foppery in morals,, which if it were known, would make me ridiculous ; that...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... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1822 - 336 pages
...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...now I am grown old, and my memory bad, I feel very sensibly the want of it. But on the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1834 - 682 pages
...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...and now I am grown old, and my memory bad, I feel ver}' sensibly the want of it But on the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 674 pages
...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...now I am grown old, and my memory bad, I feel very sensibly the want of it. But on the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 842 pages
...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 of being enried and kated ; and that a benevolent matt tko*ld alldtf a/eie/aultt... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - Statesmen - 1848 - 676 pages
...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...now I am grown old, and my memory bad, I feel very sensibly the want of it. But on the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious... | |
 | 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
...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...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... | |
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