 | Conduct of life - 1822 - 336 pages
...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 one and avoid the other. But I soon found that I had undertaken a task of more difficulty than I had imagined. While my attention was taken up,... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1824 - 308 pages
...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 one and avoid the other. But I soon found that I had undertaken a task of more difficulty than I had imagined; while my attention was taken up,... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1830 - 336 pages
...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 one and avoid the other. But I soon found that I had undertaken a task of more difficulty than I had imagined; while my attention was taken up,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - Statesmen - 1848 - 676 pages
...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 one and avoid the Oiher. But I soon found I had undertaken a task of more difficulty than I had imagined. While my attention... | |
 | Orville Luther Holley - Inventors - 1848 - 534 pages
...he does himself very candidly confess. "I soon found," says he, "that I had undertaken a task of far more difficulty than I had imagined. While my attention was taken up and my care employed in guarding against one fault, I was often surprised by another ; habit took advantage... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Horatio Hastings Weld - 1856 - 584 pages
...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 one and avoid the other. But I soon found 1 had undertaken a task of more difficulty than I had imagined. While my attention was taken up, and... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - Printers - 1856 - 654 pages
...inclination, custom, or company, might lead me into. As I knew, or thought I knew, \vhat was right and wrong, I did not see why I might not always do the one and avoid the oiher. But I soon found I had undertaken a task of more difficulty than I had imagined. While my attention... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1859 - 680 pages
...custom, or company, might lead me into! As I know, or thought I knew, what was right and wrong, Т did not see why I might not always do the one and avoid the other. But I soon found I had undc/taken a task of more difficulty than I had imagined : while my attention was takrn up, and cure... | |
 | Robert Kemp PHILP - 1859 - 182 pages
...ECONOMY OF TIME, AND THE ATTAINMENT OF MORAL GREATNESS.* "As I knew, or thought I knew, what was right or wrong, I did not see why I might not always do the one and avoid the other. But I soon found that I had undertaken a task of more difficulty than I had imagined. "While my attention was taken... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1859 - 622 pages
...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 ione and avoid the other. But I soon found I had undertaken a task of more difficulty than I had imagined.... | |
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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 ; I would conquer all that either natural inclination, custom, or company might lead me into. As... 
