 | Benjamin Franklin, Alfred Howard - 1834 - 206 páginas
...do the one and avoid the other. But I soon found I had undertaken a task of more difficulty than I imagined : while my attention was taken up, and care...Temperance, for example, was by some confined to eating and drinking ; while by others, it was extended to mean the moderating every other pleasure, appetite,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1818 - 604 páginas
...habits must be broken, and good ones acquired and established, before we can have any dépendance on • steady uniform rectitude of conduct. For this purpose...the same name. Temperance, for example, was by some conftncd to eating and drinking ; while by others it was extended to mean the moderating every other... | |
 | 1818 - 642 páginas
...purpose I therefore tried the following method : — In the various enumerations of the aural virtuei I had met with in my reading, I found the catalogue...writers included more or fewer ideas under the same o«me. Temperance, for example, was by some confined to eating and drinking ; "hile by others it was... | |
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In the various enumerations of the moral virtues I had met with in my reading, I found the catalogue more or less numerous, as different writers included more or fewer ideas under the same name. Temperance, for example, was by some confined to eating... 
