 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1818 - 566 pages
...and grew very artful and expert in drawing people, even of superior knowledge, into concessions, the consequences of which they did not foresee, entangling...in terms of modest diffidence, never using, when I advance any thing that may possibly be disputed, the words certainly,—undoubtedly, or any others... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Philosophers - 1818 - 566 pages
...and grew very artful and expert in drawing people, even of superior knowledge, into concessions, the consequences of which they did not foresee, entangling...neither myself nor my cause always deserved. I continued Uhis method some few years, but gradually left it, retaining only the habit of expressing myself in... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1834 - 682 pages
...and grew very artful and expert in drawing people, even of superior knowledge, into concessions, the consequences of which they did not foresee; entangling...of modest diffidence; never using, when I advanced any thing that may possibly be disputed, the word certainly — undoubtedly — от any other that... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 674 pages
...and grew very artful and expert in drawing people, even of superior knowledge, into concessions, the consequences of which they did not foresee, entangling...in terms of modest diffidence, never using, when I advance any thing that may possibly be disputed, the words certainly, undoubtedly, or any others that... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1840 - 668 pages
...and grew very artful and expert in drawing people, even of superior knowledge, into concessions, the consequences of which they did not foresee, entangling...in terms of modest diffidence, never using, when I advance any thing that may possibly be disputed, the words certainly, undoubtedly, or any others that... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - Statesmen - 1848 - 676 pages
...and grew very artful and expert in drawing people, even of superior knowledge, into concessions, the consequences of which they did not foresee, entangling...in terms of modest diffidence, never using, when I advance any thing that may possibly be disputed, the words certainly, undoubtedly, or any others that... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1850 - 666 pages
...and grew very artful and expert in drawing people, even of superior knowledge, into concessions, the consequences of which they did not foresee, entangling...that neither myself nor my cause always deserved. •& •"-* ^ •* "* I continued this method some few years, but gradually left it, retaining only... | |
 | Edward Everett - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1850 - 716 pages
...he grew very artful and expert in drawing people, even of superior knowledge, into concessions, the consequences of which they did not foresee, — entangling...they could not extricate themselves, — " and so," he adds, " obtaining victories that neither myself nor my cause always deserved." He continued this... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Inventors - 1853 - 522 pages
...and grew very artful and expert in drawing people, even of superior knowledge, mto concessions the consequences of which they did not foresee, entangling...in terms of modest diffidence, never using, when I advance anything that may possibly be disputed, the words certainly, undoubtedly, or any others that... | |
 | Theodore Alois Buckley - Biography - 1853 - 446 pages
...and grew very artful and expert in drawing people, even of superior knowledge, into concessions, the consequences of which they did not foresee, entangling...my cause always deserved. I continued this method for some few years, but gradually left it, retaining only the habit of expressing myself in terms of... | |
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I took a delight in it, practised it continually, and grew very artful and expert in drawing people, even of superior knowledge, into concessions, the consequences of which they did not foresee, entangling them in difficulties out of which they could... 
