 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1818 - 566 pages
...project of arriving at moral perfection; I wished to live without committing any fault at anytime, and to conquer all that either natural inclination, custom...I had imagined: while 'my attention was taken up, and care employed in guarding against one fault, I was often surprised by another : habit took the... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Philosophers - 1818 - 566 pages
...of arriving at moral perfection ; I wished to live without committing any fault at any time, and to conquer all that either natural inclination, custom...into. As I knew, or thought I knew what was right and 1 See Papers on Mistellancous Subjcots, in continuatiou nf these Memoirs. wrong, I did not see why... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1818 - 556 pages
...of arriving at moral. perfection ; I wished to live without committing any fault at any time, and to conquer all that either natural inclination, custom,...company, might lead me into. As I knew, or thought 1 knew, what was right and wrong, 1 did not see why I might not always do the one and avoid the other.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1818 - 558 pages
...of arriving at moral perfection; I wished to live without committing any fault at any time, and to conquer all that either natural inclination, custom, or company, might lead me into. As 1 knew, or thought I knew, what was right and wrong, 1 did not sec why I might qot always do the one... | |
 | 1818 - 628 pages
...moral perfection. " I wished to live," he says, " without committing any fault at any time, and to conquer all that either natural inclination, custom, or company, might lead me into." He set about this hopeless task, and resumed it at different periods of his life, with all ihi energy... | |
 | English literature - 1818 - 638 pages
...moral perfsctiot. '•" I wished to live," he says, " without committing any fault at any time, and to conquer all that either natural inclination, custom, or company, might lead me into." He set about this hopeless task, and resumed it at different periods of his life, with all ihe energy... | |
 | 1818 - 486 pages
...arriving at moral perfection ,• I wished to live without committing any fault at any time, and to conquer all that either natural inclination, custom, or company might lead me into. On the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1822 - 336 pages
...of arriving at moral perfection. I wished to live without committing any fault at any time, and to conquer all that either natural inclination, custom,...into. As I knew, or thought I knew, what was right or wrong, I did not see why I might not always do the one and avoid the other. But I soon found that... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1824 - 308 pages
...projectof arriving at moral perfection. I wished to live without committing any fault at any time, and to conquer all that either natural inclination, custom or company, might lead me into. 2 As I knew, or thought I knew what was right and wrong, I did not see why I might not always do the... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1830 - 336 pages
...of arriving at moral perfection. I wished to live without committing any fault at any time, and to conquer all that either natural inclination, custom or company, might lead me into. 2 As I knew, or thought I ,knew what was right and wrong, I did not see why I might not always do the... | |
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It was about this time I conceived the bold and arduous project of arriving at moral perfection. I wished to live without committing any fault at any time ; I would conquer all that either natural inclination, custom, or company might lead me into. As... 
