 | Sue Ann Prince - 2005 - 160 pages
...politics, and science were discussed and examined as in a coffeehouse with more structure and order: "Our Debates were to be under the Direction of a President, and to be conducted in the sincere Spirit of Enqmry after Truth, without Fondness for Dispute, or Desire ofVictory." u The Library Company, which... | |
 | Mark Allen - 2007 - 432 pages
...point of Morals, Politics, or Natural Philosophy [physics], to be discuss'd by the company; and once in three months produce and read an essay of his own...victory; and to prevent warmth, all expressions of positive opinions, or direct contradiction, were after some time made contraband, and prohibited under... | |
 | Frances Dunn Butterfoss - 2007 - 608 pages
...themselves and their community. As their leader, Franklin insisted that their discussions and debates be "conducted in the sincere spirit of inquiry after...without fondness for dispute or desire of victory ..." (Franklin, 1868, p. 60). Friday evening meetings were organized around a series of questions that... | |
 | Ron Willingham - 2007 - 167 pages
...queries on any point of morals, politics or natural philosophies to be discussed by the company, and once in three months, produce and read an essay of his...after truth, without fondness for dispute or desire for victory." Mr. Franklin told me the names of the original men who made up the study group. They... | |
 | 1916 - 354 pages
...said, or was forever denying or distinguishing upon trifles, to the disturbance of all conversation." three months produce and read an essay of his own writing on any subject he pleased." We find on record still another indication of Franklin's admiration of this self-taught mathematician.... | |
 | Edwin Almiron Greenlaw, William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1927 - 648 pages
...Philosophy, to be discussed by the company; and once in three months produce and read an essay of his ovfB writing, on any subject he pleased. Our debates were to be under the 432 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN direction of a president, and to be conducted in the sincere spirit of inquiry... | |
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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... 
