 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 556 pages
...lines, . Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of modesty is want of sense. Now is not the want of sense (where a man is so unfortunate as to want...stand more justly thus? Immodest words admit but this defence, That .want of modesty is want of sense. This however, I should submit to better judgments.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 558 pages
...of no defence, For want of modesty is want of sense. Now is not the want of sense (where a man is.so unfortunate as to want it) some apology for his want...stand more justly thus? Immodest words admit but this defence, That -want <jf modesty is want of sense. This however, I should submit to better judgments.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 566 pages
...modesty? and would not the lines stand more justly thus ? " Immodest words admit but this defence, That want of modesty is want of sense." This, however, I should submit to better judgr ments. My brother had in 1720 or 21 begun to print a newspaper. It was the second that appeared... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 566 pages
...lines stand more justly thus ? " Immodest words admit but this defence, That want of modesty is want-of sense." This, however, I should submit to better judgments. My brother had in 1720 or 21 begun to print a newspaper. It was the second that appeared in America, and was called the New England... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1834 - 682 pages
...lines, Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of modesty is want of sense. Now is not the want of sense (where a man is so unfortunate as to want...stand more justly thus * Immodest words admit but thit defence, That want qf modesty is want of sense. This, however, I should submit to better judgments.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 666 pages
...lines, "Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of modesty is want of sense." Now, is not the want of sense, where a man is so unfortunate as to want it, some apology for his want of modesty 1 And would not the lines stand more justly thus? "Immodest words admit but this defence, That want... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 674 pages
...lines, "Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of modesty is want of sense." Now, is not the want of sense, where a man is so unfortunate as to want it, some apology for his want of modesty 1 And would not the lines stand more justly thus? "Immodest words admit but this defence, That want... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1848 - 676 pages
...lines, "Immodest w.ords admit of no defence, For want of modesty is want of sense." Now, is not the want of sense, where a man is so unfortunate as to want...stand more justly thus? "Immodest words admit but this defence, That want of modesty is want of sense." This, however, I should submit to better judgments.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1853 - 522 pages
...' " Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of modesty is want of sense." Now, is not the want of sense, where a man is so unfortunate as to want...more justly thus ? *' Immodest words admit but this defence, That want of modesty is want of sense." This, however, I should submit to better judgments.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 pages
...lines, " Immodest words admit of no defense, For want of modesty is want of sense." Now, is not the want of sense, where a man is so unfortunate as to want...submit to better judgments. My brother had, in 1720 or 172], begun to print a newspaper. It was the second that appeared in America, and was called the New... | |
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If you ask, Why less properly ? I must repeat the lines : " Immodest words admit of no defense For want of modesty is want of sense. 
