| Christopher Looby - 1996 - 304 páginas
...conducted in a spirit of goodwill, "without Fondness for Dispute, or Desire of Victory," and where "all Expressions of Positiveness in Opinion, or of...Contradiction, were after some time made contraband & prohibited under small pecuniary Penalties" (p. 1361). So Franklin adopted his father's practice... | |
| Myra Jehlen, Michael Warner - 1997 - 1148 páginas
...in three Months produce and read an Essay of his own Writing on any Subject he pleased. Our Debates were to be under the Direction of a President, and...Contradiction, were after some time made contraband & prohibited under small pecuniary Penalties. The first Members were, Joseph Brientnal, a Copyer of... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1998 - 404 páginas
...in three Months produce and read an Essay of his own Writing on any Subject he pleased. Our Debates were to be under the Direction of a President, and...Contradiction, were after some time made contraband & prohibited under small pecuniary Penalties. The first Members were, Joseph Brientnal, a Copyer of... | |
| David C. Hammack - 1998 - 508 páginas
...in three months produce and read an essay of his own writing, on any subject he pleased. Our debates were to be under the direction of a president, and to be conducted in the sincere spirit of inquiry after truth, without fondness for dispute, or desire of victory; and, to prevent warmth, all... | |
| Kerry S. Walters - 1999 - 236 páginas
...in little more than hot tempers and angry words. He therefore stipulated that the Junto debates were "to be conducted in the sincere Spirit of Enquiry...without Fondness for Dispute, or Desire of Victory," and even provided for financial penalties for offending members. 7 A scan of a few of the "queries to be... | |
| James Campbell - 1999 - 322 páginas
...Writing on any Subject he pleased." In their discussions, the Junto members pledged to be guided by "the sincere Spirit of Enquiry after Truth, without Fondness for Dispute, or Desire for Victory" (A: 11 7); and Franklin reports that these discussions functioned as a testing ground... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 2003 - 588 páginas
...in three months produce and read an essay of his own writing, on any subject he pleased. Our debates were to be under the direction of a president, and to be conducted in the sincere spirit of inquiry after truth, without fondness for dispute, or desire of victory; and, to prevent warmth, all... | |
| Peter Jarvis, Colin Griffin - 2003 - 466 páginas
...in three months produce and read an essay of his own writing, on any subject he pleased. Our debates were to be under the direction of a president, and to be conducted in the sincere spirit of inquiry after truth, without fondness for dispute, or desire of victory; and, to prevent warmth, all... | |
| Phil R. Manning, Lois DeBakey - 2007 - 478 páginas
...a Club for mutual Improvement, which we called the Junto. We met on Friday Evening .... Our Debates were to be under the Direction of a President, and...without Fondness for Dispute, or Desire of Victory. . . . BENJAMIN FRANKLIN 6 In 1911, because Winston Churchill was denied membership in a dining club... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 2004 - 446 páginas
...Writing on any Suhject he pleased. Our Dehates were to he under the Direction of a Presidem, and to he conducted in the sincere Spirit of Enquiry after Truth,...Fondness for Dispute, or Desire of Victory; and to prevem Warmth all Espressions of Positiveness in Opinions or of direct Comradiction, were after some... | |
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