 I have never entered into any controversy in defence of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them ; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are...  The Gentleman's Magazine - Page 1641834Full view - About this book
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 566 pages
...of my writings. I have never entered into any controversy in defence of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If...apt to sour one's temper, and disturb one's quiet. 1 have no private interest in the reception of my inventions by the world, having never made, nor proposed... | |
 | Edward Henry Knight - 1876 - 996 pages
...handle a pen like a cimeter, wrote : "I enter into no controversy. I leave my philosophical opinions to take their chance in the world. If they are right,...I have no private interest in the reception of my inventions by the world, having never made, nor proposed to make, the least profit by any of them.... | |
 | Edward Henry Knight - 1876 - 898 pages
...handle a pen like a cimcter, wrote : " I enter into no controversy. I leave my philosophical opinions to take their chance in the world. If they are right,...apt to sour one's temper and disturb one's quiet. 1 have no private interest in the reception of my inventions by the world, having never made, nor pro'Osed... | |
 | Edward Henry Knight - 1876 - 1000 pages
...world. If they are right, trutli ยก and experience will support them ; if wrong, they ought to l>e refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one's...I have no private interest in the reception of my inventions by the world, having never made, nor projwsed to make, the least profit by any of them.... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden - 1880 - 980 pages
...but he said : " I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions ; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If...apt to sour one's temper and disturb one's quiet." Weld, in his history of the Royal Society, states that the king had an interview with Sir John Pringle,... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1880 - 974 pages
...but he said : " I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions ; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If...apt to sour one's temper and disturb one's quiet." Weld, in his history of the Royal Society, states that the king had an interview with Sir John Pringle,... | |
 | 1880 - 982 pages
...hut he said : " I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions ; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If...apt to sour one's temper and disturb one's quiet." Weld, in his history of the Royal Society, states that the king had an interview with Sir John Pringle,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1882 - 680 pages
...with the change. Lord Dartmouth had been on their side in opposing the Stamp Act, sopliical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If...right, truth and experience will support them ; if tcrong-, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one's temper, and disturb... | |
 | 1909 - 604 pages
...when he said : "I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If...apt to sour one's temper, and disturb one's quiet." PERSONALS By the Editor and Associate Editors. Born, to Dr. and Mrs. Karl F. Roehrig, a daughter. Dr.... | |
 | William Stebbing - 1887 - 432 pages
...admirer in 1777 : "I have never entered into any controversy in defence of my philosophical opinions. If they are right, truth and experience will support...if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected." He had been told King George had exchanged the rebel Franklin's favourite pointed ' conductors for... | |
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