| John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1876 - 394 páginas
...appetite. Benjamin tells this story in his autobiography, and shrewdly adds, quoting from some one else, " So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature,...make a reason for everything one has a mind to do." It was in the beautiful month of October, 1723, when Benjamin landed on the wharves of New York. He... | |
| Robert Edward Francillon - 1876 - 528 páginas
...only one girl I evemet who is all these things." " ' So convenient is it,' says some book or other, ' to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one...make a reason for everything one has a mind to do.' " " Confound it, Forsyth, you arc going too far. Of course I have a mind to do what is prudent for... | |
| Jeremiah Chaplin - 1876 - 416 páginas
...now and then returned to a vegetable diet. " So convenient a thing it is," says this happy logician, "to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or m;ike a reason for everything one has a mind to." After this, a fair wind, springing up, took the vessel... | |
| John Stevens C. Abbott - 1879 - 418 páginas
...appetite. Benjamin tells this story in his autobiography, and shrewdly adds, quoting from some one else, " So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature,...make a reason for everything one has a mind to do." It was in the beautiful month of October, 1723, when Benjamin landed on the wharves of New York. He... | |
| Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1882 - 680 páginas
...since continued to eat as other people; returning onlv now and then occasionally to a vegetable dun. So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature,...since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do. Keimer and I lived on a pretty good familiar footing, and agreed... | |
| Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1882 - 668 páginas
...I dined upon cod very heartily, and have since continued to eat as other people; returning only now and then occasionally to a vegetable diet. So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creatvre, since it enables one to find or make a reason I'or every thing one has a mind to do. Keimer... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1886 - 256 páginas
...introduce some of mine. cod very heartily, and continued to eat with other people, returning only now and then occasionally to a vegetable diet. So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable cre<z£Hre7~siiiclT7t enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do. Keimer... | |
| Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1920 - 1090 páginas
...you eat one another, I don't see why we may not eat you ! ' So I dined upon cod very heartily. ... So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature,...make a reason for everything one has a mind to do." The recent war has also furnished examples of the accommodation of human reason to man's desires. A... | |
| Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1923 - 1038 páginas
...don't see why we mayn't eat you.' So I dined upon cod very heartily. ... So convenient a thing is it to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one...make a reason for everything one has a mind to do." In such wise our feelings, with the aid of our logic, proceed to the determination of all those boundaries... | |
| Ellet Joseph Waggoner - 1888 - 404 páginas
...I dined upon cod very heartily, and have since continued to eat as other people, returning only now and then occasionally to a vegetable diet. So convenient...make a reason for everything one has a mind to do." Franklin's conclusion is very apt. When people determine upon a certain course, there is never any... | |
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