 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1818 - 556 pages
...of modesty? and would not the lines stand more justly thus? Immodest words admit but this defence, That .want of modesty is want of sense. This however,...submit to better judgments. My brother had in 1720 or 21, began to print a newspaper. It was the second that appeared in America, and was called the JVew... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1818 - 566 pages
...sense." T" Now, is not the want of sense (where a man is so unfortunate as to want it) some apology for his want of modesty ? and would not the lines...more justly thus ? " Immodest words admit but this defence, That want of modesty is want-of sense." This, however, I should submit to better judgments.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1818 - 558 pages
...and would not the lines stand more justly thus? Immodest words admit but this defence, That -want <jf modesty is want of sense. This however, I should submit to better judgments. My brother had in 1720 or 21, began to print a newspaper. It was the second that appeared in America, and was called the JVew... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Philosophers - 1818 - 566 pages
...modesty? and would not the lines stand more justly thus ? " Immodest words admit but this defence, That want of modesty is want of sense." This, however, I should submit to better judgr ments. My brother had in 1720 or 21 begun to print a newspaper. It was the second that appeared... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1834 - 682 pages
...want of sense. Now is not the want of sense (where a man is so unfortunate as to want it) some apology for his want of modesty ? and would not the lines stand more justly thus * Immodest words admit but thit defence, That want qf modesty is want of sense. This, however, I should submit to better judgments.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1840 - 666 pages
...want of sense, where a man is so unfortunate as to want it, some apology for his want of modesty 1 And would not the lines stand more justly thus? "Immodest words admit but this defence, That want of modesty is want of sense." This, however, I should submit to better judgments.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1840 - 668 pages
...of sense." Now, is not the want of sense, where a man is so unfortunate as to want it, some apology for his want of modesty ? And would not the lines...stand more justly thus? "Immodest words admit but this defence, That want of modesty is want of sense." This, however, I should submit to better judgments.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 674 pages
...want of sense, where a man is so unfortunate as to want it, some apology for his want of modesty 1 And would not the lines stand more justly thus? "Immodest words admit but this defence, That want of modesty is want of sense." This, however, I should submit to better judgments.... | |
 | 1842 - 194 pages
...your hearers, or obtain the concurrence you desire." 6. In the year 1720, or '21, James Franklin began to print a newspaper. It was the second that appeared in America, and was called the New England Corn-ant. The only one before it was the Boston News Letter. Some of his friends endeavored to dissuade... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - Statesmen - 1848 - 676 pages
...of sense." Now, is not the want of sense, where a man is so unfortunate as to want it, some apology for his want of modesty ? And would not the lines...stand more justly thus? "Immodest words admit but this defence, That want of modesty is want of sense." This, however, I should submit to better judgments.... | |
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My brother had, in 1720 or 1721, begun to print a newspaper. It was the second that appeared in America, and was called the New England Courant. The only one before it was the Boston... 
