 | Enoch Burton Gowin - 1919 - 552 páginas
...good ones acquired and established. . . . For this purpose I therefore contrived the following method. I included under thirteen names of virtues all that...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... | |
 | Enoch Burton Gowin - 1919 - 518 páginas
...good ones acquired and established. . . . For this purpose I therefore contrived the following method. I included under thirteen names of virtues all that..."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... | |
 | Columbia University. Department of Philosophy - 1925 - 422 páginas
...proposed to myself, for the sake of clearness, to use rather more names, with fewer ideas attached to each, than a few names with more ideas and I included...These names of virtues, with their precepts, were: 1. TEMPEEANCE — Eat not to dulness; drink not to elevation. 2. SILENCE — Speak not but what may benefit... | |
 | Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 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... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - 1926 - 924 páginas
...fewer ideas annexed 1 From the Autobiography. 2 About 1731, when Franklin was twenty-five years of age. to each, than a few names with more ideas; and I included...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... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - 1926 - 928 páginas
...fewer ideas annexed 1 From the Autobiography. "About 1731, when Franklin was twenty-five years of age. to each, than a few names with more ideas; and I included...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... | |
 | Werrett Wallace Charters - 1927 - 396 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...fully expressed the extent I gave to its meaning. My intention being to acquire the habitude of all these virtues, I judged it would be well not to distract... | |
 | Percival Mallon Symonds - 1928 - 382 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 a few names and more ideas. I ineluded under thirteen names of virtues, all that at that time occurred to me as... | |
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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,... 
