 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1818 - 566 pages
...in public councils, when I became a member : for I was but a bad speaker, never eloquent, subject to much hesitation in my choice of words, hardly correct 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... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1822 - 336 pages
...in public councils when I became a member : for I was but a bad speaker, never eloquent, subject to much hesitation in my choice of words, hardly correct 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... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1824 - 308 pages
...in public councils, when I became a member; for I was but a bad speaker, never eloquent, subject to much hesitation in my choice of words, hardly correct in language, and yet I generally carried my point. 40 In reality there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride;... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1830 - 336 pages
...in public councils, when I became a member; for I was but a bad speaker, never eloquent, subject to much hesitation in my choice of words, hardly correct in language, and yet I generally carried my point. . , 40 In reality there is, perhaps, no. one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride;... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1834 - 682 pages
...in public councils, when I became a member : for I was but a bad speaker, never eloquent, subject to much hesitation in my choice of words, hardly correct 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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1840 - 666 pages
...in public councils, when I became a member ; for I was but a bad speaker, never eloquent, subject to much hesitation in my choice of words, hardly correct 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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 674 pages
...in public councils, when I became a member ; for I was but a bad speaker, never eloquent, subject to much hesitation in my choice of words, hardly correct 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... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 842 pages
...in acquiring the reality of this virtue, but i had a good deal with regard to the appearance of it. In reality there is, perhaps, no one of our natural...subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, stifle '.'•: mortify it as much us one pleases, it is still alive, and will every now and then peep out... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - Statesmen - 1848 - 676 pages
...in public councils, when I became a member ; for I was but a bad speaker, never eloquent, subject to much hesitation in my choice of words, hardly correct 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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Inventors - 1853 - 522 pages
...in public councils, when I became a member; for I was but a bad speaker, never eloquent, subject to much hesitation in my choice of words, hardly correct 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... | |
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I had early so much weight with my fellowcitizens when I proposed new 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 much hesitation in... 
