 | Rossiter Johnson, John Howard Brown - 1904 - 488 pages
...points in morals, philosophy or politics to be discussed by all, and once in three months each was to read an essay of his own writing on any subject he pleased. Thomas Godfrey, mathematician; Nicholas Scull, surveyor; William Mangridge, IN THE REAR OF. 53 A\ARKtT... | |
 | M. Katherine Jackson - 1906 - 214 pages
...strangers, the advantageous changes desired in the laws, were read and discussed at each meeting. The debates were to be under the direction of a president...conducted in the " sincere spirit of inquiry after the truth, without fondness for dispute or desire of victory."60 This society was long known as The... | |
 | Charles W. Eliot LLD - 1909 - 426 pages
...queries on any point of Morals, Politics, or Natural Philosophy, to be discuss'd by the company; and once in three months produce and read an essay of his own...to prevent warmth, all expressions of positiveness ifl opinions, or direct contradiction, were after some time made contraband, and prohibited under small... | |
 | Harold Donaldson Eberlein, Horace Mather Lippincott - 1912 - 488 pages
...queries on any point of morals, politics, or natural philosophy, to be discussed by the company, and once in three months produce and read an essay of his own writing, on any subject he pleased. Franklin says it " was the best school of philosophy, morality and politics that then existed in the... | |
 | American Philosophical Society, Peter Stephen Du Ponceau - 1914 - 210 pages
...on any point of Morals, Politics, or Natural Philosophy, to be discussed, and once in three months on any subject he pleased. Our debates were to be...without fondness for dispute or desire of victory. The first members besides Franklin, were Joseph Breintnal, Thomas Godfrey, ("He soon left us") Nicholas... | |
 | American Philosophical Society, Peter Stephen Du Ponceau - 1914 - 206 pages
...Company; and once in three months, produce and read an essay of his own, on any subject he pleased. Their debates were to be under the direction of a President, and to be conducted in the sincere spirit of enquiry after truth, without fondness for dispute or desire of victory; and to prevent warmth, all... | |
 | Thomas Godfrey - 1917 - 250 pages
...on any point of Morals, Politics, or Natural Philosophy, to be discuss'd by the company ; and once in three months produce and read an essay of his own writing, on any subject he pleased." 1 Among the first members was Thomas Godfrey, one of the directors of the Library Company of Philadelphia,... | |
 | William Cabell Bruce - 1917 - 560 pages
...morals, politics or natural philosophy, to be discussed by its members, and once every three months to produce and read an essay of his own writing on any subject he pleased. Under the regulations, the debates were to be conducted with a presiding officer in the chair, and... | |
 | Henry Ezekiel Jackson - 1920 - 288 pages
...be most helpful in suggesting the spirit that should guide the meetings. He says, "our debates were to be conducted in the sincere spirit of inquiry after...without fondness for dispute or desire of victory." Franklin's club will also serve to stimulate young men and women to see what a profoundly important... | |
 | Edwin Greenlaw, Clarence Stratton - 1922 - 648 pages
...Politics, or Natural Philosophy, to be discussed by the company; and once in three months pro- 90 duce and read an essay of his own writing, on any subject he pleased. Our debates were to be under the 432 433 direction of a president, and to be conducted in the sincere spirit of inquiry after truth,... | |
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The rules that I drew up required that every member in his turn should produce one or more queries on any point of morals, politics, or natural philosophy, to be discussed by the company ; and once in three months produce and read an essay of his own... 
