 | Benjamin Franklin - 1868 - 434 Seiten
...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 ovfr this not unprofitable... | |
 | 1874 - 852 Seiten
...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...thank God for his vanity, among the other comforts of lite." — voL i., p. 82. The autobiography proper — that is ta say, the portion expressly written... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 812 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 602 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Edward Isidore Sears - 1875 - 436 Seiten
...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 cases, it would not be altogether absurd if a mau were to thank God for his vanity, among the other comforts of life." — voL i., p. 82. The autobiography... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, John Bigelow - 1875 - 579 Seiten
...furca, tamen usque recurret Being forbid to praise themselves, they learn instead of it to censure And now I speak of thanking God, I desire with all humility to acknowledge that I owe the menothers, which is only a roundabout way of praising themselves ; for condemning the conduct... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1882 - 680 Seiten
...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...life. And now I speak of thanking God, I desire with aH humility to acknowledge, that I attribute the mentioned happiness of my past life to his divine... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1886 - 256 Seiten
...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...comforts of life. And now I speak of thanking God, I desire'with all humility to acknowledge that I owe the mentioned happiness of my past life to his kind... | |
 | 1886 - 218 Seiten
...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." In one of his letters he writes : " What you mention concerning the love of praise is indeed very true... | |
 | Edward Herbert Baron Herbert of Cherbury - 1886 - 488 Seiten
...AFTER A DUEL. Page 121 ANNE, QUEEN OF JAMES I. . . . ,,130 COUNT DE GONDOMAR .... ,,235 INTRODUCTION. " IT would not be altogether absurd if a man were to...for his vanity among the other comforts of life." Benjamin Franklin sets these words in the forefront of his autobiography, and they deserve to be set... | |
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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... 
