 | Lorraine Smith Pangle - 2007 - 300 páginas
...he decided, for his own part, "to use rather more names with fewer Ideas annex'd to each, than fewer 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."35 But Franklin was more subtle than this breezy introduction... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 189? - 332 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...precept which fully expressed the extent I gave to its moaning. The names of virfates, with their precepts, were : 1. TEMPERANCE. — Eat not to dullness... | |
 | 78 páginas
...a steady uniform rectitude of conduct. For this purpose I therefore contrived the following method I included under thirteen names of virtues all that...that time occurred to me as necessary or desirable These names were temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation,... | |
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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,... 
