 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1901 - 296 pages
...very artful and expert in drawing people even of superior knowledge into concessions the consequence of which they did not foresee, entangling them in...in terms of modest diffidence, never using, when I advanced anything that may possibly be disputed, the words certainly, undoubtedly, or any others that... | |
 | Charles Herbert Sylvester - 1903 - 358 pages
...very artful and expert in drawing people even of superior knowledge into concessions the consequence of which they did not foresee, entangling them in...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 - 1905 - 238 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 - Statesmen - 1905 - 354 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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1906 - 382 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...it, retaining only the habit of expressing myself in termsjrf modest diffidence ; never using, when I advanced any thing that may possibly be disputed,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1908 - 430 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... | |
 | George Brinton McClellan Harvey - Women - 1908 - 248 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... | |
 | George Brinton McClellan Harvey - Women - 1908 - 248 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... | |
 | Charles Lane Hanson - English language - 1908 - 264 pages
...the wisest of us can learn something from Franklin's method of expressing himself : I ... [retained] the habit of expressing myself 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 - 1909 - 236 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... 
