 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1818 - 556 pages
...measures that I have been from time to time engaged in promoting; and as fhc chief ends of conversation are. to inform, or to be informed, to please or to...In fact if you wish to instruct others, a positive and dogmatical manner in advancing your sentiments may occasion opposition and prevent a candid attention.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1818 - 558 pages
...engaged in promoting; and as the chief ends of conversation are to inform, or to be informed, to phase or to persuade; I wish well meaning and sensible men...In fact if you wish to instruct others, a positive and dogmatical manner in advancing your sentiments may occasion opposition and prevent a candid attention.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Philosophers - 1818 - 566 pages
...ends of conversation are to inform, or to be informed ; to please, or to persuade; I wish well-meaning and sensible men would not lessen their power of doing...others, a positive dogmatical manner in advancing yoxir sentiments, may occasion opposition, and prevent a candid attention. If you desire instruction... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1824 - 308 pages
...measures that I have been from time 'to time engaged in promoting; and as the chief ends of conversation are to inform, or to be informed, to please or to...of those purposes for which speech was given to us. 23 In fact, if you wish to instruct others, a positive and dogmatical manner in advancing your sentiments,... | |
 | United States - 1826 - 422 pages
...ends of conversation are to inform or to be informed, to please or to persuade, I wish well-meaning and sensible men would not lessen their power of doing...tends to create opposition, and to defeat most of the purposes for which speech was given to us." Men mast be taught as if yon taught them not, And things... | |
 | United States - 1826 - 440 pages
...ends of conversation are to inform or to be informed, to please or to persuade, I wish well-meaning and sensible men would not lessen their power of doing...tends to create opposition, and to defeat most of the purposes for which speech was given to us." Men tnnst be taught as if you taught them not. And... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1830 - 336 pages
...measures that I have been from time to time engaged in promoting; and as the chief ends of conversation are to inform, or to be informed, to please or to...of those purposes for which speech was given to us. 23 In fact, if you wish to instruct others, a positive and dogmatical manner in advancing your sentiments,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1834 - 682 pages
...measures that I have been from time to time engaged in promoting ; and as the chief ends of convenation are to inform, or to be informed, to please or to...In fact if you wish to instruct others, a positive and dogmatical manner in advancing your sentiments may occasion opposition and prevent a candid attention.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 pages
...ends of conversation are to inform or to lie informed, to please or to persuade, I wish well-meaning and sensible men would not lessen their power of doing good by a positive, assuming manner, that seldom tails to disgust, tends to create opposition, and to defeat most of those purposes for which speech... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1859 - 680 pages
...promoting; and as the chief ends of conversation are to inform, or to be informed, to please or to persuada, I wish well meaning and sensible men would not lessen...In fact if you wish to instruct others, a positive and dogmatical manner in advancing your sentiments may occasion opposition and prevent a candid attention.... | |
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... has been of great advantage to me when I have had occasion- to inculcate my opinions, and persuade men into measures that I have been from time to time... 
