All 3 Uses of
discretion
in
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
- My father received the governor's letter with some apparent surprise, but said little of it to me for some days, when Capt. Holmes returning he showed it to him, ask'd him if he knew Keith, and what kind of man he was; adding his opinion that he must be of small discretion to think of setting a boy up in business who wanted yet three years of being at man's estate.†
- There was great difference in persons; and discretion did not always accompany years, nor was youth always without it.†
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- Accordingly Mr. Hanbury called for me and took me in his carriage to that nobleman's, who receiv'd me with great civility; and after some questions respecting the present state of affairs in America and discourse thereupon, he said to me: "You Americans have wrong ideas of the nature of your constitution; you contend that the king's instructions to his governors are not laws, and think yourselves at liberty to regard or disregard them at your own discretion.†
Definition:
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(discretion as in: It is within her discretion.) the right to make a decision (and perhaps accompanying good judgment)