| Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 556 páginas
...when any difficulty occurred; and frequently chosen an arbitrator between contending parties. At his table he liked to have, as often as he could, some sensible friend or neighbor to converse with, and always took care to start some ingenious or useful topic for discourse,... | |
| 1844 - 220 páginas
...affairs, when any difficulty occurred, and frequently chosen an arbiter between contending parties. At his table he liked to have, as often as he could, some sensible friend or neighbor to converse with, and always took care to start some ingenious or useful topic for discourse,... | |
| Orson Squire Fowler - 1847 - 322 páginas
...qualities, is transmitted. Of his father and himself he remarks on this point as follows : — " At his table he liked to have, as often as he could, some sensible friend or neighbor to converse with, and always took care to start some ingenious or useful topic for discourse,... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1849 - 78 páginas
...when any difficulty occurred, and frequently chosen an arbitrator between contending parties. At his table he liked to have as often as he could, some sensible friend or neighbor to converse with, and always took care to start some ingenious or useful topic for discourse,... | |
| James Wynne - 1850 - 372 páginas
...knowledge of mechanics, but his great excellence was his sound understanding and solid judgment." "At his table he liked to have as often as he could some sensible friend or neighbor to converse with, and always took care to start some ingenious or useful topic for discourse,... | |
| Success - 1851 - 362 páginas
...was of a substantial, wholesome character. " My father," says Franklin, "liked to have at his table, as often as he could, some sensible friend or neighbour...converse with, and always took care to start some useful topic for discourse, which might tend to improve the minds of his children. By this means he... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1853 - 522 páginas
...when any difficulty occurred, and frequently chosen an arbitrator between contending parties. At his table he liked to have, as often as he could, some sensible friend or neighbor to converse with; and always took care to start some ingenious or useful topic for discourse,... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 páginas
...when any difficulty occurred, and frequently chosen an arbitrator between contending parties. At his table he liked to have, as often as he could, some sensible friend or neighbor to converse with, and always took care to start some ingenious or useful topic for discourse,... | |
| Thomas Bridgman - 1856 - 450 páginas
...contending parties. At his table he liked to have, as often as he could, some sensible friend or neighbor to converse with, and always took care to start some...which might tend to improve the minds of his children. My mother had likewise an excellent constitution : she suckled all her ten children. I never knew either... | |
| 1858 - 348 páginas
...substantial, wholesome character. " My father," says Franklin, " liked to have at his table, as often as ho could, some sensible friend or neighbour to converse with, and always took care to start some useful topic for discourse, which might tend to improve the minds of his children. By this means he... | |
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