| 1822 - 336 páginas
...mental, even to our avarice or ambition. I proposed to myself, for the sake of clearness, to use rather more names, with fewer ideas annexed to each, than...precepts, were : — 1. TEMPERANCE. — Eat not to dullness: drink not to elevation. 2. SILENCE. — Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself:... | |
| Jesse Torrey - 1824 - 308 páginas
...all grades to imitate or excel each other in the display of external appearances, — COMP. a flew names with more ideas; and I included under thirteen...desirable ; and annexed to each a short precept, which explained the extent I gave to its meaning. 6 These names of virtues, with their precepts, were: I.... | |
| Jesse Torrey - 1830 - 336 páginas
...members of all grades to imitate or excel each other in the display of external appearances. — COMP, a few names with more ideas; and I included under thirteen names of virtues, all that at that ti?ne occurred to me as necessary or desirable ; and annexed to each a short precept, which explained... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1834 - 682 páginas
...mental, even to our avarice and ambition. 1 proposed to myself, for the sake of clearness, to use rather more names, with fewer ideas annexed to each, than...expressed the extent I gave to its meaning. These names of virtue!, with their precepts, were, 1. TEMPERANCE. — Eat not to dulness: drink not to elevation.... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1848 - 594 páginas
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| Benjamin Franklin - 1853 - 522 páginas
...mental, even to our avarice and ambition. I proposed to myself, for the sake of clearness, to use rather more names, with fewer ideas annexed to each, than a few names * This paper is dated Nov. 20th, 1728; and bears the marks of juvenility in the style. In it Franklin... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 páginas
...mental, even to our avarice and ambition. I proposed to myself, for the sake of clearness, to use rather more names, with fewer ideas annexed to each, than...their precepts, were : 1. TEMPERANCE. — Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation. 2. SILENCE. — Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself;... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1856 - 670 páginas
...mental, even to our avarice and ambition. I proposed to myself, for the sake of clearness, to use rather more names, with fewer ideas annexed to each, than...necessary or desirable; and annexed to each a short pre cept, which fully expressed the extent I gave to its meaning. These names of virtues, with their... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1856 - 534 páginas
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| 1858 - 348 páginas
...method : " I included," he says, " under thirteen names of virtues, all that at that time seemed to me necessary or desirable, and annexed to each a short...expressed the extent I gave to its meaning. These were : 1. TEMPERANCE. — Eat not to dullness ; drink not to elevation. 2. SILENCE. — Speak not but... | |
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