 | Woodruff D. Smith - 2002 - 358 páginas
...sources and use the list as the basis of a repeating. self-conducted course of moral improvement.] ... I included under Thirteen Names of Virtues all that at that time occurr'd to me as necessary or desirable. and annex 'd to each a short Precept. which fully express... | |
 | Paul Hyland, Olga Gomez, Francesca Greensides - 2003 - 496 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 dullness; drink not to elevation. 2. Silence 3. Order Let all your things have their places; let each... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 2003 - 588 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: Temperance: Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation. Silence: Speak not but what may benefit others... | |
 | Paul Hyland, Olga Gomez, Francesca Greensides - 2003 - 494 páginas
...mental, even to our avarice and amhition. I proposed to mvsclf, lor the sake of clearness, to use rather more names, with fewer ideas annexed to each, than a few names with more ideas; and 1 included under thirteen names of virtues all that at that time occurred to me as necessarv or desirahle,... | |
 | Robert E. Belknap - 2004 - 284 páginas
...those that had previously been mastered: 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 dullness; drink not to elevation. 2. SILENCE. Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 2004 - 446 páginas
...I propos'd to myself, for the sake of Clearness, to use rather more Names with fewer Ideas anncs'd to each, than a few Names with more Ideas; and I included...under Thirteen Names of Virtues all that at that time oecurr'd to me as necessary or desirahle, and annes'd to each a short Precept, which fully espress'd... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 2005 - 320 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... | |
 | Paul M. Zall - 2005 - 330 páginas
...therefore propos'd to my self, for the sake of Clearness, to use rather more Names than 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 desirable, and annex'd to each a short Precept, which fully express'd the Extent... | |
 | Stuart Bailey, Peter Bilak - 2007 - 198 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 - 2007 - 258 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... | |
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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,... 
