... 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
| Monica McGoldrick - 1997 - 334 sidor
...the father's frugal, industrious rise from poverty and obscurity to affluence and reputation: "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... | |
| J. Victor Koschmann - 1996 - 318 sidor
...Quoting Franklin's reflections at the beginning of his autobiography, to the effect that "[h]aving emerged from the poverty and obscurity in which I...affluence and some degree of reputation in the world . . . ," Otsuka comments, "From the time he was a poor youth [Franklin] seems to have known no servility... | |
| Rafia Zafar - 1997 - 270 sidor
...generic appropriation and textual transcendence. Having emerg'd from the Poverty and Obscurity in which 1 was born and bred, to a State of 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... | |
| Carolyn L. Karcher - 1994 - 850 sidor
...compatriots to emulate the diligence responsible for his fabled rise from "Poverty and Obscurity ... to a State of Affluence and some Degree of Reputation in the World"; and lest they miss the point, he catalogued the thirteen virtues he deemed paramount—temperance,... | |
| James Campbell - 1999 - 322 sidor
...his rise to prominence through a combination of hard work and good fortune. He writes: 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... | |
| Hasia R. Diner - 2002 - 262 sidor
...autobiography in terms that would resonate in Lower East Side, American Jewish memoir literature: "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 conducting use I made... | |
| Penny Schine Gold, Benjamin C. Sax - 2000 - 332 sidor
...is one of the several motives he offers for writing: Having emerg'd from the Poverty and Dbscurity in which I was born and bred, to a State of 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... | |
| Paul Downes - 2002 - 239 sidor
...glance they could not be more different. Franklin tells the story of an almost infuriatingly smooth rise from "the Poverty and Obscurity in which I was born...Affluence and some Degree of Reputation in the World" (Autobiography, 3), while Burroughs describes his life as "one continued course of tumult, revolution... | |
| Paul Hyland, Olga Gomez, Francesca Greensides - 2003 - 496 sidor
...retirement, I sit down to write them for you. To which I have besides some other inducements. 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 felicitv, the cones oo /' ducing means... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 2003 - 588 sidor
...retirement, I sit down to write them for you. To which I have besides some other inducements. 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... | |
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