 | Richard Garnett - Anthologies - 1890 - 448 pages
...it continually, and grew very artful and expert in drawing people, even of superior knowledge, into concessions, the consequences of which they did not...victories that neither myself nor my cause always deserv'd. I continued this method some few years, but gradually left it, retaining only the habit of... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Julian Willis Abernethy - 1892 - 200 pages
...works, written in a brilliant and persuasive style, were at that time very popular and influential. consequences of which they did not foresee, entangling...in terms of modest diffidence; never using, when I advanced anything that may possibly be disputed, the words certainly, undoubtedly, or any others that... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - American literature - 1892 - 572 pages
...it continually, and grew very artful and expert in drawing people, even of superior knowledge, into concessions, the consequences of which they did not...and so obtaining victories that neither myself nor rny cause always deserved. I continued this method some few years, but gradually left it, retaining... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson, Mrs. Ellen Mackay Hutchinson Cortissoz - American literature - 1894 - 592 pages
...it continually, and grew very artful and expert in drawing people, even of superior knowledge, into concessions, the consequences of which they did not...in terms of modest diffidence ; never using, when I advanced anything that may possibly be disputed, the words, certainly, undoubtedly, or any others that... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1896 - 250 pages
...it continually, and grew very artful and expert in drawing people, even of superior knowledge, into concessions, the consequences of which they did not...in terms of modest diffidence; never using, when I advanced anything that may possibly be disputed, the words certainly, undoubtedly, or any others that... | |
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - Literature - 1898 - 578 pages
...it continually, and grew very artful and expert in drawing people, even of superior knowledge, into concessions, the consequences of which they did not...victories that neither myself nor my cause always deserv'd. I continued this method some few years, but gradually left it, retaining only the habit of... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1899 - 204 pages
...it continually, and grew very artful and expert in drawing people, even of superior knowledge, into concessions, the consequences of which they did not...that neither myself nor my cause always deserved. I continu' d this method some few years, but gradually left it, retaining only the habit of expressing... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Leon Vallée, Alois Brandl - Literature - 1899 - 428 pages
...it continually, and grew very artful and expert in drawing people, even of superior knowledge, into concessions, the consequences of which they did not...so obtaining victories that neither myself nor my ca*«se always deserv'd. I continued this method some few years, but gradually left it, retaining only... | |
 | Jasper Newton Deahl - Education - 1900 - 118 pages
...abrupt contradictions and positive argumentation, and put on the humble inquirer." He further says, " I continued this method some few years, but gradually...of expressing myself in terms of modest diffidence. This habit has been of great advantage to me." Thus we see Franklin acquired not only an elegance of... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - American literature - 1901 - 572 pages
...it continually, and grew very artful and expert in drawing people, even of superior knowledge, into concessions, the consequences of which they did not...in terms of modest diffidence ; never using, when I advanced anything that may possibly be disputed, the words certainly, undoubtedly, or any others that... | |
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I took a delight in it, practiced it continually, and grew very artful and expert in drawing people, even of superior knowledge, into concessions the consequences of which they did not foresee, entangling them in difficulties out of which they could not... 
