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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. "
Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin - Página 34
por Benjamin Franklin - 1834
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Dot Dot Dot 13

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...
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The Compleated Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin: 1757-1790

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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The Political Philosophy of Benjamin Franklin

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...
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac, and Other Papers

Benjamin Franklin - 189? - 332 páginas
...pleasure, appetite, inclination, or passion, bodily or mentally, even to our avarice and ambition. I proposed to myself, for the sake of clearness, to...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...
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The Beauties of Franklin: Consisting of Selections from His Works

Benjamin Franklin, Alfred Howard - 1834 - 206 páginas
...avarice and ambition. I proposed to myself, for the sake of clearness, to use rather more names, witli fewer ideas annexed to each, than a few names with...expressed the extent I gave to its meaning. These names of virtues, with their precepts, were : 1. TEMPERANCE. — Eat not to dulness : drink not to elevation....
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New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volumen9

Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1818 - 604 páginas
...pleasure, appetite, inclination or passion, bodily or ineittal, even to our avarice or ambition. I proposed to myself, for the sake of clearness, to...to each, than a few names with more ideas ; and I inincluded under thirteen names of virtues, all that at that time occurred to me as necessary or desirable;...
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Behavior and Destiny: A Christian View

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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