Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves ; but I give it fair quarter wherever I meet with it, being persuaded that it is often productive of good to the possessor, and to others that are within his sphere of action... The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: [Autobiography - Stran 2avtor: Benjamin Franklin - 1818Celotni ogled - O knjigi
| Anna Maria Hall - 842 strani
...with it, being persuaded that it is often productive of good to the possessor, and to others who are within his sphere of action ; and therefore, in many...altogether absurd, if a man were to thank God for hit vanity among the other comforti of hit life."— P. 2. After tracing the events of his early youth... | |
| Robert Conger Pell - 1850 - 196 strani
...with it, being persuaded that it is often productive of good to the possessor, and to others who are within his sphere of action ; and therefore, in many...for his vanity, among the other comforts of life." HAPPY EPITHET. Lord Brskine, speaking of animals, and hesitating to call them, brutes, hit upon a happy... | |
| Robert Conger Pell - 1853 - 252 strani
...with it, being persuaded that it is often productive of good to the possessor, and to others who are within his sphere of action ; and therefore, in many...altogether absurd if a man were to thank God for his vamty, among the other comforts of life." HAPPY EPITHET. Lord Erskine, speaking of animals, and hesitating... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1859 - 680 strani
...with it, being persuaded that it is often productive of good to the jxjssestor, and to others who are within his sphere of action : and therefore, in many...comforts of life. And now I speak of thanking God, 1 desire will} all humility to acknowledge that I attribute the mentioned happiness of my post life... | |
| Frederick Saunders - 1859 - 444 strani
...with it, being persuaded that it is often productive of good to the possessor, and to others who are within his sphere of action ; and, therefore, in many...for his vanity, among the other comforts of life." Yet the difference among men in the matter of vanity consists mainly in this — the wise and prudent... | |
| Christian Nestell Bovee - 1862 - 256 strani
...with it, being persuaded that it is often productive of good to the possessor, and to others who are •within his sphere of action; and therefore, in...for his vanity, among the other comforts of life." THE VIRTUES. "T would be a curious subject of inquiry how i- far a man's very virtues, under the present... | |
| Anne Judith Penny - 1863 - 190 strani
...with it, being persuaded that it is often productive of good to the possessor, and to others who are within his sphere of action ; and therefore in many...for his vanity among the other comforts of life.' — B. FEAXKLIN. THE SOUKCE OF YANITY. I ONCE entertained the happy thought, that I had made an observation... | |
| Cecilia Lucy Brightwell - 1863 - 332 strani
...of learning the means which I employed, and which, thanks to Providence, so well succeeded with me. And now I speak of thanking God, I desire with all humility, to acknowledge that I attribute the happiness of my past life to his divine Providence, which led me to the means I used, and gave me success."... | |
| Benjamin Franklin, Epes Sargent - 1866 - 270 strani
...with it, being persuaded that it is often productive of good to the possessor, and to others who are within his sphere of action; and therefore in many...his divine providence, which led me to the means I \ised, and gave the success. My belief of this induces me to hope, though I must not presume, that... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1868 - 426 strani
...with it, being persuaded that it is often productive of good to the possessor, and to others that are within his sphere of action ; and therefore, in many...for his vanity among the other comforts of life.* * Some twenty years before he commenced his Memoirs, Franklin threw his mantle over this not unprofitable... | |
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