 While I was intent on improving my language, I met with an English grammar (I think it was Greenwood's), at the end of which there were two little sketches of the arts of rhetoric and logic, the latter finishing with a specimen of a dispute in the Socratic...  From Boyhood to Manhood, Life of Benjamin Franklin - Page 200by William M. Thayer - 1889 - 497 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1818 - 558 pages
...this time Locke on the Human Understanding, and the Art of Thinking by Messrs. du Port Royal. While 1 was intent on improving my language, I met with an...finishing with a dispute in the Socratic method ; and soon ai'ter I procured Xenophon's Memorable things of Socrates, wherein there are many examples of the same... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1818 - 566 pages
...about this time " Locke on Human Understanding? and " The Art of Thinking," by Messrs, du Port Royal. (I think it was Greenwood's) having at the end of...in the Socratic method. And soon after I procured " Xcnophoris Memorable Things of Socrates" wherein there are many examples of the same method. I was... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1818 - 556 pages
...about this time Locke on the Human Understanding, and the ,lrt of Thinking by Messrs, du Port Royal. While I was intent on improving my language, I met...grammar, (I think it was Greenwood's) having at the cud of it two little sketches, on the arts of rhetoric and logic, the latter finishing with a dispute... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1834 - 682 pages
...about this time Locke on the Human Understanding, and the Art of Thinking by Messrs, du Port Royal. While I was intent on improving my language, I met with an English grammar, (I Slink it was Greenwood's,) having at the end of it two little sketches, on the artsof rhetoric and... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1834 - 500 pages
...confuting one another." " I had caught this by reading my father's books of dispute on religion." " While I was intent on improving my language, I met with an English Grammar, having at the end of it two little sketches on the arts of rhetoric and logic, the latter finishing... | |
 | 1842 - 194 pages
...on improving his language and style, Franklin met with an English grammar, at the end of which were two little sketches on the arts of rhetoric and logic. The latter of these finished with a dispute in the manner of Socrates, a very famous philosopher of Greece. Franklin... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1844 - 688 pages
...read about this time Locke on Human Understanding, and The Art of Thinking by Messrs, de PortRoyal. / While I was intent on improving my language, I met...it two little sketches on the Arts of Rhetoric and IX>gic, the latter finishing with a dispute in the Socratic method. And, soon after, I procured Xenophon's... | |
 | Theodore Alois Buckley - Biography - 1853 - 446 pages
...Locke on the Understanding, and the Art of Thinking, by Messrs, du Port Royal, passed a close study. " While I was intent on improving my language, I met...rhetoric and logic, the latter finishing with a dispute on the Socratic method ; and soon after I procured ' Xenophon's Memorable Things of Socrates,' wherein... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 pages
...on, Human Understanding, and The Art of Thinking, by Messrs, de Port-Royal. While I was intent upon improving my language, I met with an English grammar...in the Socratic method. And, soon after, I procured Xenophen's Memorable Things of Socrates, wherein there are many examples of the Bame method. I was... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1859 - 680 pages
...about this time Locke on Ike Human Understanding, and the Art of Thinking by Messrs, du Port Royal. While I was intent on improving my language, I met...having at the end of it two little sketches, on the artsof rhetoric and logic, the latter finishing with a dispute in the Socratic method ; and soon after... | |
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