 ... life with a considerable share of felicity, the conducing means I made use of, which with the blessing of God so well succeeded, my posterity may like to know, as they may find some of them suitable to their own situations, and therefore fit to be...  Genes, Brains, and Politics: Self-Selection and Social Lifeefter Elliott White - 1993 - 193 sidorIngen förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Russell Frank Weigley, Nicholas B. Wainwright, Edwin Wolf - 1982 - 870 sidor
...high on the list, did, as Franklin described his own achievement, emerge from poverty and obscurity "to a state of Affluence and some Degree of Reputation in the World."50 The press in Philadelphia, an institution Franklin would come to dominate, had begun as a... | |
 | Mary Ann Radzinowicz - 1984 - 300 sidor
...embourgeoisement of style, where the marks of class are marks of changing one's class, 'Having emerg'd from the Poverty and Obscurity in which I was born...Affluence and some Degree of Reputation in the World' (p. 192). But the most interesting is the genre transformation of autobiography at Franklin's hands,... | |
 | Charles Mabee - 1985 - 182 sidor
...Autobiography, set in the context of a note to his son, gives the ostensible purpose of the book. Having emerg'd from the Poverty and Obscurity in which I was born...Affluence and some Degree of Reputation in the World, and having gone so far thro' Life with a considerable Share of Felicity, the conducing Means I made... | |
 | Peter J. Bailey - 1985 - 248 sidor
...and Ben Flesh attempt to do. "Mythic" is not, of course, a word Franklin uses to describe his ascent from the "Poverty and Obscurity in which I was born...Affluence and some Degree of Reputation in the World,"' this sense of the word postdating his eighteenth century. And yet, his insistence that his progress... | |
 | John W. Crowley, John William Crowley - 1990 - 154 sidor
...of vulgar journalism, is pumping Lapham for the details of his emergence from poverty and obscurity to a state of affluence and some degree of reputation in the world. This self-made man, the putative king of the paint industry, knows what is expected of him for this... | |
 | Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola - 1992 - 276 sidor
...just that bespeaks a unifying didacticism present from the very beginning of the text: Having emerg'd from the Poverty and Obscurity in which I was born...Affluence and some Degree of Reputation in the World, and having gone so far thro' Life with a considerable Share of Felicity, the conducing Means 1 made... | |
 | Malini Johar Schueller - 1992 - 220 sidor
...to write them for you" (BF 43). But soon the narrator confesses to other motivations: Having emerg'd from the Poverty and Obscurity in which I was born...Affluence and some Degree of Reputation in the World and having gone so far thro' Life with a considerable share of Felicity, the conducing Means I made... | |
 | J. R. LeMaster, James Darrell Wilson, Christie Graves Hamric - 1993 - 952 sidor
...geniality, and his career was a Franklinesque model of success in his ascent from poverty and obscurity to a state of affluence and some degree of reputation in the world. Young Howells lacked much formal education, but he drilled himself in languages and read voraciously,... | |
 | Daniel Hoffman - 1994 - 396 sidor
...begins his dizzying progress in much the same vein that Crevecosur had begun Andrew's adventures: Having emerged from the poverty and obscurity in which I...affluence and some degree of reputation in the world, and having gone so far through life with a considerable share of felicity, the conducing means I made... | |
 | Robert F. Sayre - 1994 - 750 sidor
...autobiography which we have noted. The religious conversion narrative, in his handling, became a secular one, "from the Poverty and Obscurity in which I was born...Affluence and some Degree of Reputation in the World." 10 Nominally, at least, he wrote the Autobiography as a letter to his son, just as Anne Bradstreet... | |
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