 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 34por Benjamin Franklin - 1834Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 páginas
...pleasure, appetite, inclination, or passion, bodily or mental, even to our avarice and ambition. I proposed to myself, for the sake of clearness, to...expressed the extent I gave to its meaning. These names of virtues, with their precepts, were : 1. TEMPERANCE. — Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1856 - 670 páginas
...pleasure, appetite, inclination, or passion, bodily or mental, even to our avarice and ambition. I proposed to myself, for the sake of clearness, to...necessary or desirable; and annexed to each a short pre cept, which fully expressed the extent I gave to its meaning. These names of virtues, with their... | |
 | 1858 - 348 páginas
...method : " I included," he says, " under thirteen names of virtues, all that at that time seemed to me necessary or desirable, and annexed to each a short...expressed the extent I gave to its meaning. These were : 1. TEMPERANCE. — Eat not to dullness ; drink not to elevation. 2. SILENCE. — Speak not but... | |
 | Robert Kemp PHILP - 1859 - 182 páginas
...other pleasure, appetite, inclination, or passion, bodily or mental, even to our avarice or ambition. I proposed to myself, for the sake of clearness, to...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.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Epes Sargent - 1866 - 270 páginas
...other pleasure, appetite, inclination or passion, bodily or mental, even to our avarice and ambition. I proposed to myself, for the sake of clearness, to...with fewer ideas annexed to each, than a few names * This paper is dated Nov. 20th, 1728 ; and bears the marks of juvenility in the style. In it Franklin... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1868 - 434 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 - 1868 - 426 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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 602 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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 812 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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1882 - 680 páginas
...pleasure, appetite, inclination, or passion, bodily or mental, 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 it meaning. These names of virtues, with their precepts, were; 1. TEMPERANCE. — Eat not to dulness... | |
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