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Bashyboy Posted 11 years ago
Grammar
Ben's Autobiography
Hello everyone,
"I say wilful, because the instances I leave mentioned had something of necessity in them, from my youth, inexperience, and the knavery of others."
This sentence has been giving me a good deal of trouble. Here is a link to a website containing the paragraph from which this sentence comes:
http://www.ushistory.org/franklin/autobiography/page28.htm
Is he saying that in those instances he felt it necessary to be immoral and unjust? And what does he mean by, "...from my youth, inexperience, and the knavery
of others?"
"I say wilful, because the instances I leave mentioned had something of necessity in them, from my youth, inexperience, and the knavery of others."
This sentence has been giving me a good deal of trouble. Here is a link to a website containing the paragraph from which this sentence comes:
http://www.ushistory.org/franklin/autobiography/page28.htm
Is he saying that in those instances he felt it necessary to be immoral and unjust? And what does he mean by, "...from my youth, inexperience, and the knavery
of others?"
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I think he is claiming that his lapses in morality and justice were unavoidable (rather than "wilful") and arose because of his youth and inexperience, and the knavery of others.
- I think he is claiming that his lapses in morality and justice were unavoidable (rather than "wilful") and arose because of his youth and inexperience, and the knavery of others.
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I think he is claiming that his lapses in morality and justice were unavoidable (rather than "wilful") and arose because of his youth and inexperience, and the knavery of others.
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