 | Benjamin Franklin - 1896 - 220 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...These names of virtues, with their precepts, were : i. TEMPERANCE. Eat not to dullness ; drink not to elevation. 2. SILENCE. Speak not but what may benefit... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1897 - 330 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...with their precepts, were : 1. TEMPERANCE. Eat not to dullnecs ; drink not to elevation. 2. SILENCE. Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid... | |
 | 1900 - 594 páginas
...mental, even to our avarice and ambition. I proposed for myself, for the sake of clearness, to use rather more names, with fewer ideas annexed to each, than...with their precepts, were : 1. Temperance. Eat not to dulluess ; drink not to elevation. 2. Silence. Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself ;... | |
 | george rice carpenter - 1898 - 498 páginas
...I proposed 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... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter - 1898 - 498 páginas
...I proposed 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... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter - 1898 - 494 páginas
...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 the extent I gave to its meaning. These names of virtues, with their precepts were : i. TEMPERANCE... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1899 - 204 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...These names of virtues, with their precepts, were : r. TEMPERANCE. Eat not to dullness ; drink not to elevation. 2. SILENCE. Speak not but what may benefit... | |
 | Howard Payson Arnold - 1899 - 408 páginas
...Franklin in his "Autobiography" says in regard to his "various enumerations of the moral virtues " : — " I included under thirteen names of virtues all that...that time occurred to me as necessary or desirable." Among these truthfulness does not appear, the nearest approach to it being " sincerity," which is by... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1901 - 296 páginas
...mentally, 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...fully expressed the extent I gave to its meaning. The names of virtues, with their precepts, were : 1. TEMPERANCE. — Eat not to dullness ; drink not... | |
 | Josephus Nelson Larned - 1901 - 520 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... | |
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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,... 
