 | Benjamin Franklin - 1869 - 426 Seiten
...might have been very useful, by forming a great number of good citizens ; and I was not discourag'd by the seeming magnitude of the undertaking, as I...forms a good plan, and, cutting off all amusements or other employments that would divert his attention, makes the execution of that same plan his sole... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 812 Seiten
...might have been very useful, by forming a great number of good citizens ; and I was not discourag'd by the seeming magnitude of the undertaking, as I...forms a good plan, and, cutting off all amusements or other employments that would divert his attention, makes the execution of that same plan his sole... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1881 - 604 Seiten
...passion of imagination, has himself declared this important truth relating to the literary character: — "I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities...forms a good plan ; and cutting off all amusements, or other employments that would divert his attention, makes the execution of that same plan his sole... | |
 | William Wirt Kinsley - 1881 - 392 Seiten
...and by serving as incentives secure to the less gifted the more frequent victory. Franklin affirms, "I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities...forms a good plan and, cutting off all amusements or other employments that would divert his attention, makes the execution of that same plan his sole... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1886 - 156 Seiten
...might have been very useful, by forming a great number of good citizens ; and I was not discouraged by the seeming magnitude of the undertaking, as I...forms a good plan, and, cutting off all amusements or other employments that would divert his attention, makes the execution of that same plan his sole... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1886 - 256 Seiten
...great number of good citizens; and I was not discouraged by the seeming magnitude of the undertakihg, as I have always thought that one man of tolerable...forms a good plan, and, cutting off all amusements or other employments that would divert his attention, makes the execution of that same plan his sole... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1888 - 330 Seiten
...might have been very useful, by forming a great number of good citizens ; and I was not discouraged by the seeming magnitude of the undertaking, as I...forms a good plan, and, cutting off all amusements or other employments that would divert his attention, makes the execution of that same plan his sole... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1891 - 142 Seiten
...might have been very useful, by forming a great number of good citizens; and I was not discouraged by the seeming magnitude of the undertaking, as I...forms a good plan, and, cutting off all amusements or other employments that would divert his attention, makes the execution of that same plan his sole... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1892 - 202 Seiten
...might have been very useful, by forming a great number of good citizens : and I was not discouraged by the seeming magnitude of the undertaking, as I...forms a good plan, and, cutting off all amusements or other employments that would divert his attention, makes the execution of that same plan his sole... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Julian Willis Abernethy - 1892 - 200 Seiten
...number of good citizens : and I was not discouraged by the seeming magnitude of the undertaking, as 1 have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities...forms a good plan, and, cutting off all amusements or other employments that would divert his attention, makes the execution of that same plan his sole... | |
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I am still of opinion that it was a practicable scheme, and might have been very useful, by forming a great number of good citizens; and I was not discouraged by the seeming magnitude of the undertaking, as I have always thought that one man of tolerable... 
