 ... 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...  Cultural Visions: Essays in the History of Culture - Sida 54redigerad av - 2000 - 308 sidorBegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | 1818 - 502 sidor
...suggesting to me, that such extreme uicety as I exacted of myself might be a kind of foppery in morals, « hich, if it were known, would make me ridiculous;...faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance. In truth I found myself incorrigible with respect to Order ; and now I am grown old, and my memory... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 556 sidor
...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...faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance. In truth I found myself incorrigible with respect to Order; and now I am grown old, and my memory bad,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 566 sidor
...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 - 1818 - 566 sidor
...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... | |
 | 1822 - 336 sidor
...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...faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance. In truth, I found myself incorrigible with respect to Order / and now I am grown old, and my memory... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1834 - 682 sidor
...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...faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance. In truth I found myself incorrigible with respect to Order ; and now I am grown old, and my memory... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 674 sidor
...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...faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance. In truth, I found myself incorrigible with respect to Order; and now I am grown old, and my memory... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 842 sidor
...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 - 1848 - 676 sidor
...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...faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance. In truth, I found myself incorrigible with respect to Order; and now I am grown old, and my memory... | |
 | Orville Luther Holley - 1848 - 534 sidor
...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... | |
| |
