 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1818 - 566 pages
...it continually, and grew very artful and expert in drawing people, even of superior knowledge, into concessions, the consequences of which they did not...of modest diffidence, never using, when I advance any thing that may possibly be disputed, the words certainly,—undoubtedly, or any others that give... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1818 - 558 pages
...it continually, and grew very artful and expert in drawing people, even of superior knowledge, into concessions, the consequences of which they did not...in terms of modest diffidence; never using, when I advanced anything that may possibly be disputed, the word certainly — undoubtedly, or any other that... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Philosophers - 1818 - 566 pages
...it continually, and grew very artful and expert in drawing people, even of superior knowledge, into concessions, the consequences of which they did not...neither myself nor my cause always deserved. I continued Uhis method some few years, but gradually left it, retaining only the habit of expressing myself in... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1834 - 682 pages
...it continually, and grew very artful and expert in drawing people, even of superior knowledge, into concessions, the consequences of which they did not...in terms of modest diffidence; never using, when I advanced any thing that may possibly be disputed, the word certainly — undoubtedly — от any other... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 674 pages
...it continually, and grew very artful and expert in drawing people, even of superior knowledge, into concessions, the consequences of which they did not...of modest diffidence, never using, when I advance any thing that may possibly be disputed, the words certainly, undoubtedly, or any others that give... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - Statesmen - 1848 - 676 pages
...it continually, and grew very artful and expert in drawing people, even of superior knowledge, into concessions, the consequences of which they did not...of modest diffidence, never using, when I advance any thing that may possibly be disputed, the words certainly, undoubtedly, or any others that give... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1850 - 666 pages
...it continually, and grew very artful and expert in drawing people, even of superior knowledge, into concessions, the consequences of which they did not...that neither myself nor my cause always deserved. •& •"-* ^ •* "* I continued this method some few years, but gradually left it, retaining only... | |
 | Edward Everett - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1850 - 716 pages
...continually ; that he grew very artful and expert in drawing people, even of superior knowledge, into concessions, the consequences of which they did not...they could not extricate themselves, — " and so," he adds, " obtaining victories that neither myself nor my cause always deserved." He continued this... | |
 | Theodore Alois Buckley - Biography - 1853 - 446 pages
...it continually, and grew very artful and expert in drawing people, even of superior knowledge, into concessions, the consequences of which they did not...my cause always deserved. I continued this method for some few years, but gradually left it, retaining only the habit of expressing myself in terms of... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 pages
...it continually, and grew very artful and expert in drawing people, even of superior knowledge, into concessions, the consequences of which they did not...of modest diffidence, never using, when I advance any thing that may possibly be disputed, the words certainly, undoubtedly, or any others that give... | |
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I took a delight in it, practiced it continually, and grew very artful and expert in drawing people, even of superior knowledge, into concessions the consequences of which they did not foresee, entangling them in difficulties out of which they could not... 
