 In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will every now and then peep out and show itself...  Saint Ignatius Loyola: The Pilgrim Years 1491-1538 - Page 188by James Brodrick - 1956 - 373 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 556 pages
...speaker, never eloquent, subject to much hesitation in my choice of words, hardly correct in language, and yet I generally carried my point. In reality there...it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alire, and will every now and then peep out and show itself; you will see it perhaps often in this... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1830 - 336 pages
...hesitation in my choice of words, hardly correct in language, and yet I generally carried my point. . , 40 In reality there is, perhaps, no. one of our natural...hard to subdue as pride; disguise it, struggle with :*, stifle it, mortify it as mucji as one pleases, it is still alive, id will every now and then peep... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 842 pages
...in acquiring the reality of this virtue, but i had a good deal with regard to the appearance of it. In reality there is, perhaps, no one of our natural...subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, stifle '.'•: mortify it as much us one pleases, it is still alive, and will every now and then peep out... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 522 pages
...speaker, never eloquent, subject to much hesitation in my choice of words, hardly correct in language, and yet I generally carried my point. In reality,...of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. " l)isguise it, struggle with it, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive,... | |
 | Emil Kade - 1856 - 280 pages
...is a lesson hard to learn ober to be learned. a. Ah she was fair, exceeding fair to behold. L. — There is perhaps no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue, as Pride. Franklin. — It is a point very difficult to know. Sterne. — Posthorses were now not easy to get.... | |
 | Robert Kemp PHILP - 1859 - 182 pages
...bodies." never eloquent, subject to much hesitation in my choice of words, hardly correct in language, and yet I generally carried my point. In reality there...perhaps no one of our natural passions so hard to suhdue as pride : disguise it, struggle with it, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is... | |
 | 1859 - 852 pages
...speaker, never eloquent, subject to much hesitation in my choice of words, hardly correct in language, and yet I generally carried my point. In reality there is, perhaps, no ono of our natural inclinations so hard to subdue us pride; disguise it, struggle with it, stifle it,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1868 - 434 pages
...hesitation in my choice of words, hardly correct in language, and yet I generally carried my points. ' In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural...to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will every now and... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1868 - 426 pages
...hesitation in my choice of words, hardly correct in language, and yet I generally carried my points. In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural...to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will every now and... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, John Bigelow - 1875 - 579 pages
...hesitation in my choice of words, hardly correct in language, and yet I generally carried my points. In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural...to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will every now and... | |
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