 It was about this time I conceiv'd the bold and arduous project of arriving at moral perfection. I wish'd to live without committing any fault at any time ; I would conquer all that either natural inclination, custom, or company might lead me into. As...  Benjamin Franklin: His Life - Σελίδα 106των Benjamin Franklin - 1888 - 311 σελίδεςΠλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1916 - 760 σελίδες
...committing any fault at any time, and to conquer all that either natural inclination, custom, or company might lead me into. As I knew, or thought I knew,...of more difficulty than I had imagined : while my attention was taken up, and care employed in guarding against one fault, I was often surprised by another:... | |
 | Lucy Langdon Williams Wilson - 1918 - 448 σελίδες
...CONDUCT I WISHED to live without committing any fault at any time. As I knew what was right and what was wrong, I did not see why I might not always do the one and avoid the other. But soon I found that this was more difficult than I had thought. I concluded that merely thinking about... | |
 | Ella Frances Lynch - 1922 - 286 σελίδες
...upon his knowledge. Listen ! "I wished to live without committing any fault at any time," he wrote. "As I knew, or thought I knew, what was right and...always do the one and avoid the other. But I soon found that I had undertaken a task more difficult than I had imagined. While my care was employed in guarding... | |
 | Walter Matthews - 1922 - 174 σελίδες
...committing any fault at any time ; I would conquer all that either natural inclination, custom or company might lead me into. As I knew, or thought I knew, what was right or wrong, I did not see why I might not always do the one and avoid the other. I made a little book... | |
 | James Madison Stifler - 1925 - 176 σελίδες
...touched by the wearing hand of life's frictions. He said about this experiment with the thirteen virtues, "As I knew or thought I knew what was right and wrong,...might not always do the one and avoid the other." The idea of acquiring virtue by deliberate practice did not evaporate with this one experiment. More... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - 1926 - 928 σελίδες
...committing any fault at any time; I would conquer all that either natural inclination, custom, or company might lead me into. As I knew, or thought I knew, what was right and wrong, I did not sec why 'I might not always do the one and avoid the other. But I soon found I had undertaken a task... | |
 | Sydney George Fisher - 1926 - 446 σελίδες
...committing any fault at any time ; I would conquer all that either natural inclination, custom, or company might lead me into. As I knew or thought I knew what...might not always do the one and avoid the other." So he prepared his moral code of all the virtues he thought necessary, with his comments thereon, and... | |
 | Percival Mallon Symonds - 1928 - 382 σελίδες
...committing any fault at any time, and to conquer all that either natural inclination, custom, or company might lead me into. As I knew, or thought I knew,...task of more difficulty than I had imagined. While my attention was taken up, and care employed in guarding against one fault, I was often surprised by another;... | |
 | Everett H. Emerson - 1977 - 328 σελίδες
...evils into which custom, inclination, and other people could lead him was indeed naive and arrogant: "As I knew, or thought I knew, what was right and...Task of more Difficulty than I had imagined. While my Attention was taken up in guarding against one Fault, I was often surpriz'd by another. Habit took... | |
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