 | Benjamin Franklin - 1859 - 680 páginas
...our avarice and ambition. I proposed to myself, for the sake of clearness, to use rather more rtames, with fewer ideas annexed to each, than a few names...fully expressed the extent I gave to its meaning. and &• • names of virtues, with their precepts, 1. TEMPERANCE. — Eat drink not to elevation.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Epes Sargent - 1866 - 270 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 - 1868 - 426 páginas
...I propos'd to myself, for the sake of clearness, to use rather more names, with fewer ideas annex'd to each, than a few names with more ideas ; and I...under thirteen names of virtues all that at that time occurr'd to me as necessary or desirable, and annexed to each a short precept, which fully express'd... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1868 - 434 páginas
...I propos'd to myself, for the sake of clearness, to use rather more names, with fewer ideas annex'd to each, than a few names with more ideas; and I included...under thirteen names of virtues all that at that time occurr'd to me as necessary or desirable, and annexed to each a short precept, which fully express'd... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 812 páginas
...I propos'd to myself, for the sake of clearness, to use rather more names, with fewer ideas annex'd to each, than a few names with more ideas ; and I...under thirteen names of virtues all that at that time occurr'd to me as necessary or desirable, and annexed to each a short precept, which fully express'd... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 602 páginas
...I propos'd to myself, for the sake of clearness, to use rather more names, with fewer ideas annex'd to each, than a few names with more ideas ; and I...under thirteen names of virtues all that at that time occurr'd to me as necessary or desirable, and annexed to each a short precept, which fully express'd... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, John Bigelow - 1875 - 579 páginas
...occurr'd to me as necessary or desirable, and annexed to each a short precept, which fully express'd the extent I gave to its meaning. These names of virtues,...with their precepts were : 1. TEMPERANCE. Eat not to dullness ; drink not to elevation. 2. SILENCE. Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1882 - 680 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...precept, which fully expressed the extent I gave to it meaning. These names of virtues, with their precepts, were; 1. TEMPERANCE. — Eat not to dulness... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1886 - 256 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, avoid... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1888 - 250 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 ;... | |
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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, inclination, or passion, bodily or mental, even to our avarice and ambition. I proposed to myself,... 
