 | Jeremiah Chaplin - Biography & Autobiography - 1876 - 416 pages
...success in acquiring the reality of this virtue, but I had a good deal with regard to the appearance of it. I made it a rule to forbear all direct contradiction...sentiments of others, and all positive assertion of my own. • • • When another asserted something that* I thought an error, I denied myself the pleasure... | |
 | Loomis Joseph Campbell - Elocution - 1884 - 442 pages
...success in acquiring the reality of this virtne, but I had a good deal with regard to the appearance of it. I made it a rule to forbear all direct contradiction...sentiments of others, and all positive assertion of my own. 3. I even forbade myself the use of every word or expression in the language that imported a fixed... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Inventors - 1886 - 256 pages
...of this virtue, but I had a good deal with re• ---------- " ........ gard to the appearance of_it. I made it a rule to forbear all direct contradiction...that imported a fixed opinion, such as certainly, un doubtedly, etc., and I adopted, instead of them, I conceive, I apprehend, or I imagine a thing to... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1888 - 330 pages
...success in acquiring the reality of this virtue, but I had a good deal with regard to the appearance of it. I made it a rule to forbear all direct contradiction...others, and all positive assertion of my own. I even forbade myself, agreeably to the old laws of our Junto, the use of every word or expression in the... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1891 - 142 pages
...success in acquiring the reality of this virtue, but I had a good deal with regard to the appearance of it. I made it a rule to forbear all direct contradiction...positive assertion of my own. I even forbid myself, 52 agreeably to the old laws of our Junto, the use of every word or expression in the language that... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Julian Willis Abernethy - 1892 - 200 pages
...success in acquiring the reality of this virtue, but I had a good deal with regard to the appearance of it. I made it a rule to forbear all direct contradiction...undoubtedly, etc., and I adopted, instead of them, I conceive, I apprehend, or I imagine a thing to be so or so; or it so appears to me at present. When... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1895 - 310 pages
...success in acquiring the reality of this virtue, but I had a good deal with regard to the appearance of it. I made it a rule to forbear all direct contradiction...imported a fixed opinion; such as certainly, undoubtedly, &c., and I adopted instead of them, 1 conceive, I apprehend, or I imagine, a thing to be so or so;... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Readers - 1896 - 220 pages
...success in acquiring the reality of this virtue, but I had a good deal with regard to the appearance of it. I made it a rule to forbear all direct contradiction...others, and all positive assertion of my own. I even forbade myself, agreeably to the old laws of our Junto, the use of every word or expression in the... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1899 - 204 pages
...success in acquiring the reality of this virtue, but I had a good deal with regard to the appearance of it. I made it a rule to forbear all direct contradiction...word or expression in the language that imported a fix'd opinion, such as certainly, undoubtedly, etc., and I adopted, instead of them, 1 'conceive ',... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1905 - 354 pages
...success in acquiring the reality of this virtue, but I had a good deal with regard to the appearance of it. I made it a rule to forbear all direct contradiction...word or expression in the language that imported a fix'd opinion, such as certainly, undoubtedly, etc., and I adopted, instead of them, / conceive, I... | |
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I cannot boast of much success in acquiring the reality of this virtue, but I had a good deal with regard to the appearance of it. I made it a rule to forbear all direct contradiction to the sentiments of others, and all positive assertion of my own.... 
