 | 1902 - 494 páginas
...integrity of character. Hence it was, he says, "that I had so much weight with my fellow-citizens. I was but a bad speaker, never eloquent, subject to...in language, and yet I generally carried my point." That character is power, is true in a much higher sense than that knowledge is power. Mind withit heart,... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1903 - 600 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... | |
 | William Mathews - 1903 - 442 páginas
...well-known integrity of character. It was this that gave him so much weight with his fellow-citizens. " I was but a bad speaker, never eloquent, subject to...language ; and yet I generally carried my point." When George Washington took command of the American army in the struggle for independence, his countrymen... | |
 | Sherman Williams - 1904 - 208 páginas
...with duties similar to those of a governor. Franklin was not a good speaker. He says of himself : " I was but a bad speaker, never eloquent, subject to much hesitation in the choice of my words, hardly correct in language, and yet I generally carried my points." Jefferson... | |
 | Jeannette Leonard Gilder - 1910 - 330 páginas
...institutions, or alterations in the old, ana 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. 77 In reaJH-f, there is perhaps no one of our natural passions s> hard to subdue as Pride.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1905 - 238 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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1905 - 354 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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1906 - 268 páginas
...became a member ; for I was but a bad speaker, never eloquent, subject to much BENJAMIN FRANKLIN 97 hesitation in my choice of words, hardly 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 asj>nde^ Disguise... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1908 - 430 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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1909 - 280 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... 
