I grew convinced that truth, sincerity, and integrity, in dealings between man and man, were of the utmost importance to the felicity of life; and I formed written resolutions, which still remain in my journal book, to practice them ever while I lived. Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin - Page 240by James Parton - 1864 - 710 pagesFull view - About this book
| Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1818 - 566 pages
...unperceived into my argument, so as to infect all that followed, as is common in metaphysical reasonings. I grew convinced that truth, sincerity, and integrity,...were of the utmost importance to the felicity of life ; and I formed written resolutions (which still remain in my journal book) to practise them ever while... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1818 - 558 pages
...unpAreived into my argument, so as to infect all that followed, as is common in metaphysical reasonings. I grew convinced that truth, sincerity, and integrity,...man and man, were of the utmost importance to the fi-licity of life; and I formed written resolutions (which still remain in my journal book) to practise... | |
| English literature - 1818 - 594 pages
...world, and that vice and virtue were empty distinctions, no such things existing. He afterwards became convinced that truth, sincerity, and integrity in dealings between man and man, were of some importance to the felicity of life, and burned what copies remained of his pamphlet, of which... | |
| Unitarianism - 1834 - 500 pages
...unperceived into my argument, so as to infect all that followed, as is common in metaphysical reasonings. I grew convinced that truth, sincerity, and integrity,...between man and man, were of the utmost importance lo the felicity of life ; and I formed written resolutions which still remain in my journal book, to... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1834 - 682 pages
...followed, as is common in metaphysical reasonings. I grew convinced that truth, sincerity, and mtegrity, in dealings between man and man, were of the utmost importance to the felicity of life ; and I formed written resolutions (which still remain in my journal book) to * Dr. Franklin in a letter... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1840 - 666 pages
...my argument, so asr to infect all* that followed, as is common in metaphysical reasonings.' I •' I grew convinced, that truth, sincerity, and integrity,...were of the utmost importance to the felicity of life ; and I formed written resolutions, which 'Still remain in my journal book, to practise' them ever... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 674 pages
...unperceived into my argument, so as to infect all that followed, as is common in metaphysical reasonings. I grew convinced, that truth, sincerity, and integrity,...of the utmost importance to the felicity of life; and I formed written resolutions, which still remain in my journal book, to practise them ever while... | |
| Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - Statesmen - 1848 - 676 pages
...unperceived into my argument, so as to infect all that followed, as is common in metaphysical reasonings. ^ I grew convinced, that truth, sincerity, and integrity,...of the utmost importance to the felicity of life; and I formed written resolutions, which still remain in my journal book, to practise them ever while... | |
| Orville Luther Holley - Inventors - 1848 - 522 pages
...unsatisfactory nature of all metaphysical reasoning on such topics, he proceeds as follows : — " I grew convinced that truth, sincerity, and integrity,...were of the utmost importance to the felicity of life ; and I framed written resolutions, which still remain in my journal-book, to practise them ever while... | |
| James Wynne - 1850 - 372 pages
...offices and protection. He afterwards " grew convinced that truth, sincerity and integrity in dealing between man and man, were of the utmost importance to the felicity of life;" " and," adds he " I formed written resolutions, which still remain in my journal book, to practice... | |
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