 | Benjamin Franklin - 1909 - 280 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 - Inventors - 1909 - 432 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... | |
 | Charles W. Eliot LLD - 1909 - 426 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 - Biography & Autobiography - 1909 - 432 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 continu'd this method some few years, but gradually left it, retaining... | |
 | William B. Cairns - American literature - 1909 - 520 pages
...themselves, and so obtaining victories that neither myself nor my cause always deserved. I continu'd this method some few years, but gradually left it,...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 - 1910 - 216 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 - 1912 - 392 pages
...or others, it will be for the jury to say whether they can pronounce them guilty. 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... | |
 | John Lawson Stoddard - Anthologies - 1913 - 494 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 might possibly be disputed, the word certainly, undoubtedly, or any other that... | |
 | James Albert Winans - Elocution - 1915 - 504 pages
...Socratic method of argument, much to the discomfiture of others. "I practiced this method for some years, but gradually left it, retaining only the habit...possibly be disputed, the words certainly, undoubtedly . . . ; but rather say, I conceive, or apprehend, a thing to be so and so; It appears to me, or / should... | |
 | James Albert Winans - Elocution - 1915 - 504 pages
...Socratic method of argument, much to the discomfiture of others. "I practiced this method for some years, but gradually left it, retaining only the habit...possibly be disputed, the words certainly, undoubtedly . . . ; but rather say, 7 conceive, or apprehend, a thing to be so and so; It appears to me, or / should... | |
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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... 
