 | National Educational Association (U.S.). Meeting - 1898 - 1156 páginas
...was because of my wellknown integrity of character that I had so much weight with my fellowcitizens. I was but a bad speaker, never eloquent, subject to...much hesitation in my choice of words, hardly correct often in my language, and yet I generally carried my point." The teacher represents the community as... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1897 - 554 páginas
...or alterations in the old ; and so much influence in public councils, when I became a member ; for I was but a bad speaker, never eloquent, subject to...in language, and yet I generally carried my point." All which is delightfully frank, and takes us, as it were, behind the scenes. To return to his printing... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - 1897 - 582 páginas
...the police, guarantee the execution of the laws. Their influence is the bulwark of good government. It was said of the first Emperor Alexander of Russia,...personal character was equivalent to a constitution. Of Montaigne, it was said that his high reputation for integrity was a better protection for him than... | |
 | National Education Association of the United States - 1898 - 1154 páginas
...was because of my wellknown integrity of character that I had so much weight with my fellowcitizens. I was but a bad speaker, never eloquent, subject to much hesitation in ray choice of words, hardly correct often in my language, and yet I generally carried my point." The... | |
 | 1899 - 434 páginas
...powers of speaking —for these were moderate —but to his known integrity of character. He says: "I was but a bad speaker, never eloquent, subject...in language, and yet I generally carried my point." Knowledge is power; but in a greater and more beneficent sense, character is power. Truthfulness, integrity,... | |
 | 1899 - 408 páginas
...powers of speaking — for these were moderate — but to his known integrity of character. He says: "I was but a bad speaker, never eloquent, subject...in language, and yet I generally carried my point." Knowledge is power ; but in a greater and more beneficent sense, character is power. Truthfulness,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1899 - 204 páginas
...institutions, or alterations in the old, and so much influence in public councils when I became a member ; for I was but a bad speaker, never eloquent, subject to...correct in language, and yet I generally carried my points. In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise... | |
 | Paul Leicester Ford - 1899 - 554 páginas
...knowing that the little ones would follow of themselves." Franklin himself bears this out by saying that "I was but a bad speaker, never eloquent, subject...correct in language, and yet I generally carried my points." John Adams, in one of his periodic outbursts against the man whom the 453 public deemed greater... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1901 - 296 páginas
...institutions or alterations in the old ; and so much influence in public councils when I became a member ; for I was but a bad speaker, never eloquent, subject to...in language, and yet I generally carried my point. In reality there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it,... | |
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And to this habit (after my character of integrity) I think it principally owing that I had early so much weight with my fellow-citizens when I proposed new institutions, or alterations in the old, and so much influence in public councils when I became... 
