 | Benjamin Franklin - 1916 - 616 páginas
...perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet I was, by the endeavor, a better and a happier man than I otherwise should...imitating the engraved copies, tho' they never reach the wish'd-for excellence of those copies, their hand is mended by the endeavor, and is tolerable while... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, John William Cunliffe, Ashley Horace Thorndike, Harry Morgan Ayres, Helen Rex Keller, Gerhard Richard Lomer - 1917 - 816 páginas
...perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet I was, by the endeavor, a better and a happier man than I otherwise should...perfect writing by imitating the engraved copies, though they never reach the wished-for excellence of those copies, their hand is mended by the endeavor,... | |
 | Harvey Jerrold O'Higgins, Edward Hiram Reede - 1924 - 360 páginas
...perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet I was, by the endeavor, a better and a happier man than I otherwise should have been. It may be well my posterity should be informed that to this little artifice, with the blessing of God,... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - 1926 - 924 páginas
...perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet I was, by the endeavor, a better and a happier man than I otherwise should...perfect writing by imitating the engraved copies, though they never reach the wis/ied-for excellence of* those copies, their hand is mended by the endeavor,... | |
 | Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 páginas
...perfection I had been 10 ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet I was, by the endeavor, feel for the clerical band, the judicial robe, the...pillory, the gallows, the fireside, or the church. though they never reach the wished-for excellence of those copies, their hand is mended by the endeavor,... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - 1926 - 928 páginas
...perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet I was, by the endeavor, a better and a happier man than I otherwise should...perfect writing by imitating the engraved copies, though they never reach the \vished-for excellence of those copies, their hand is mended by the endeavor,... | |
 | Giles Gunn - 1981 - 489 páginas
...tho' I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet I was, by the endeavour, a better and a happier...imitating the engraved copies, tho' they never reach the wish'd-for excellence of those copies, their hand is mended by the endeavour, and is tolerable while... | |
 | Michael Warner - 2009 - 228 páginas
...Perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet I was by the Endeavour made a better and a happier Man than I otherwise should...Endeavour, and is tolerable while it continues fair & legible" (1391). Franklin's famous ambition of perfection is formed on the model of print, on the... | |
 | Herbert A. Leibowitz - 1991 - 420 páginas
...for an indulgent appearance of virtue rather than the exacting reality: "by the Endeavor [I became] a better and a happier Man than I otherwise should have been, if I had not attempted it." (156) Franklin compared social progress and changes in history to changes in himself: They occurred... | |
 | John D. Kelly - 1991 - 294 páginas
...been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet I was, by the endeavor, a better and happier man than I otherwise should have been if I had not attempted it" (p. 88). The classic bourgeois imperatives of frugality and industry, the commitments whose moral formulation... | |
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In truth, I. found myself incorrigible with respect to Order; and now I am grown old, and my memory bad, I feel very sensibly the want of it. But, on the whole, tho... 
