 | Benjamin Franklin - 1909 - 432 Seiten
...for self-examination, and continu'd it with occasional intermissions for some time. I was surpris'd to find myself so much fuller of faults than I had...new ones in a new course, became full of holes, I transferr'd my tables and precepts to the ivory leaves of a memorandum book, on which the lines were... | |
 | Michael Francis O'Reilly (in religion Potamian), James Joseph Walsh - 1909 - 438 Seiten
...naively tells us the result of this exercise of daily introspection in these words: "I am surprised to find myself so much fuller of faults than I had...but I had the satisfaction of seeing them diminish." The evening examination of conscience was always concluded by the following prayer written by Franklin... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1909 - 236 Seiten
...for selfexamination, and continued it with occasional intermissions for some time. I was surprised to find myself so much fuller of faults than I had...imagined; but I had the satisfaction of seeing them dimmish. To avoid the trouble of renewing now and then my little book, which, by scraping out the marks... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1910 - 216 Seiten
...for self-examination, and continued it, with occasional intermissions, for some time. I was surprised to find myself so much fuller of faults than I had...new ones in a new course, became full of holes, I transferred my tables and precepts to the ivory leaves of a memorandum book, on which the lines were... | |
 | Charles McKenny - 1910 - 200 Seiten
...optimism have saved millions. AVe shall not reach perfection, nor did Franklin. He says, "I was surprised to find myself so much fuller of faults than I had...imagined; but I had the satisfaction of seeing them diminished." Franklin's satisfaction may be ours if we strive as wisely and unremittingly as did he.... | |
 | Asa Don Dickinson - 1916 - 230 Seiten
...for self-examination, and continu'd it with occasional intermissions for some time. I was surpris'd to find myself so much fuller of faults than I had...new ones in a new course, became full of holes, I transferr'd my tables and precept to the ivory leaves of a memorandum book, on which the lines were... | |
 | James Madison Stifler - 1925 - 176 Seiten
...for self-examination, and continu'd it with occasional intermissions for some time. I was surpris'd to find myself so much fuller of faults than I had...but I had the satisfaction of seeing them diminish." The writer has no desire to make out a "case" for Franklin, but the query has often arisen in his mind... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - 1926 - 928 Seiten
...for self-examination, and continued it with occasional intermissions for some time. I was surprised to find myself so much fuller of faults than I had...new ones in a new course, became full of holes, I transferred my tables and precepts to the ivory leaves of a memorandum book, on which the lines were... | |
 | Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 Seiten
...for self-examination, and continued it with occasional intermissions for some time. I was surprised to find myself so much fuller of faults than I had...new ones in a new course, became full of holes, I transferred my tables and precepts to the ivory leaves of a memorandum book, on which the lines were... | |
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I was surprised to find myself so much fuller of faults than I had imagined; but I had the satisfaction of seeing them diminish. To avoid the trouble of renewing now and then my little book, which, by scraping out the marks on the paper of old faults... 
