 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1837 - 552 páginas
...that record every thing else, been able to preserve with certainty the name and reputation of their inventors. One would not, therefore, of all faculties...and, if they do succeed, to envy, robbery, and abuse. I am, &c. B. FRANKLIN. TO M. DALIBARD, AT PARIS, ENCLOSED IN A LETTER TO PETER COLLINSON. Beccaria's... | |
 | 1856 - 604 páginas
...novelty of your invention; but vanity, when the novelty and merit arc established, claims it for its own. One would not, therefore, of all faculties or qualities...and, if they do succeed, to envy, robbery and abuse." M. Arago has employed both weapons on the same occasion — the jealousy which depreciates merit and... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1850 - 548 páginas
...that record everything elie, been able to preserve with certainty the name and reputation of their inventors. One would not, therefore, of all faculties...if they do succeed, to envy, robbery, and abuse." The observations on tubular bridges in Nos. 1352 and 1411 of the Mech. Mag., involve a very important... | |
 | 1850 - 554 páginas
...that record everything elie, been able to preserve with certainty the name and reputation of their inventors. One would not, therefore, of all faculties...if they do succeed, to envy, robbery, and abuse." The observations on tubular bridges in Nos. 1352 and 1411 of the Mech. Mag., involve a very important... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1853 - 522 páginas
...that record everything else, been able to preserve with certainty the name and reputation of their inventors. One would not, therefore, of all faculties...and, if they do succeed, to envy, robbery, and abuse. [TO MR. KINNERSLEY.] FIRE IN BODIES —EXPERIMENT. LOHDON, Feb. 20, 1762. How many ways there are of... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1855 - 610 páginas
...of your invention ; but vanity, when the novelty and merit are established, claims it for its own. One would not, therefore, of all faculties or qualities...if they do succeed, to envy, robbery, and abuse.' M. Arago has employed both weapons on the same occasion — the jealousy which depreciates merit and... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1855 - 614 páginas
...of your invention ; but vanity, when the novelty and merit are established, claims it for its own. One would not, therefore, of all faculties or qualities...if they do succeed, to envy, robbery, and abuse.' M. Arago has employed both weapons on the same occasion — the jealousy which depreciates merit and... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1856 - 602 páginas
...novelty of your invention; but vanity, when the novelty and merit are established, claims it for its own. One would not, therefore, of all faculties or qualities...and, if they do succeed, to envy, robbery and abuse." M. Arago has employed both weapons on the same occasion — the jealousy which depreciates merit and... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, University Press of the Pacific - 2001 - 190 páginas
...that record every thing else, been able to preserve with certainty the name and reputation of their inventors. One would not, therefore, of all faculties...and, if they do succeed, to envy, robbery, and abuse. I am, &c., B. FRANKLIN. IV TO JOHN PRINGLE CRAVEN STREET, 6 January, 1758. SIR:—I return you Mr.... | |
 | Gordon S. Wood - 2004 - 330 páginas
...inventors. Do not wish therefore, he told Lining, for a friend or child to possess any special faculty of invention. "For his attempts to benefit mankind...if they do succeed, to envy, robbery, and abuse." There was no humor or irony here to deflect the bitterness: Franklin had felt all the envy and ridicule... | |
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One would not, therefore, of all faculties or qualities of the mind, wish for a friend or a child that he should have that of invention. For his attempts to benefit mankind in that way, however well imagined, if they do not succeed, expose him, though... 