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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, and to conquer all that either natural inclination, custom or company, might lead me into. As I... "
The Annual biography and obituary - Page 426
1818
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The Annual Biography and Obituary for the Year ..., Volume 2

1818 - 590 pages
...prevailed upon to attend for five Sundays successively; but he proved to be a bad preacher; and besides never inculcated or enforced a single moral principle....committing any fault at any time, and to conquer all %hat either natural inclination, custom, or company might lead me into. On the whole, though I never...
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Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...

Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 566 pages
...my present purpose being to relate facts, and not to make apologies for them. It was about this time I conceived the bold and arduous project of arriving...inclination, custom or company, might lead me into. As I knew, or thought I knew what was right and 1 See Papers on Mistellancous Subjcots, in continuatiou...
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Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin...

Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 556 pages
...present purpose being to relate facts and not to make apologies for them. It was about this time 1 conceived the bold and arduous project of arriving...inclination, custom, or 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...
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The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Volume 81

1818 - 638 pages
...conceived the bold and arduous project of arriving at moral perfsctiot. '•" I wished to live," he says, " without committing any fault at any time, and to conquer...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...
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Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...

Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 566 pages
...my present purpose being to relate facts, and not to make apologies for them. It was about this time I conceived the bold and arduous project of arriving...perfection; I wished to live without committing any fault at anytime, and to conquer all that either natural inclination, custom or company, might lead me into....
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The Edinburgh magazine, and literary miscellany, a new series ..., Volumes 1-2

1818 - 628 pages
...the principal events of his life have become matter of history. It was about this time that Franklin conceived the bold and arduous project of arriving at moral perfection. " I wished to live," he says, " without committing any fault at any time, and to conquer all that either natural inclination,...
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The Art of Employing Time to the Greatest Advantage, the True Source of ...

1822 - 336 pages
...BENJAMIN FRANKLIN FOR ATTAINING MORAL PERFECTION, AND REGULATING THE EMPLOYMENT OF TIME. ABOUT this time I conceived the bold and arduous project of arriving...inclination, custom, or company, might lead me into. As I knew, or thought I knew, what was right or wrong, I did not see why I might not always do the...
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The Moral Instructor, and Guide to Virtue: Being a Compendium of Moral ...

Jesse Torrey - 1824 - 308 pages
...the moral virtues: art of virtue. 1 It was about this time I conceived the bold and arduous projectof arriving at moral perfection. I wished to live without...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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The Moral Instructor, and Guide to Virtue: Being a Compendium of Moral ...

Jesse Torrey - 1830 - 336 pages
...perfection: catalogueand illustrations of the moral virtues: art of virtue. 1 It was about this time I conceived the bold and arduous project of arriving...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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Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin, Volume 1

Benjamin Franklin - 1834 - 682 pages
...my present purpose being to relate facts, and not to make apologies for them. It was about this time I conceived the bold and arduous project of arriving...inclination, custom, or company, might lead me into. 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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