 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
 | 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...expressed the extent I gave to its meaning. These names of virtues, with their precepts, were: 1. TEMPEEANCE — Eat not to dulness; drink not to elevation. 2.... | |
 | Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 páginas
...pleasure, appetite, inclination, or passion, bodily or mental, even to our avarice and ambition. I frame, at all times feeble, never altogether recovered....character, and of more alarming recurrence, defying alike virtues, with their precepts, were: i. TEMPERANCE Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation. 2. SILENCE... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - 1926 - 924 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 use rather more names, with fewer ideas annexed 1 From the Autobiography. 2 About 1731, when Franklin was twenty-five years of age. to each, than a... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - 1926 - 928 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 use rather more names, with fewer ideas annexed 1 From the Autobiography. "About 1731, when Franklin was twenty-five years of age. to each, than a... | |
 | Werrett Wallace Charters - 1927 - 396 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...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
...have been too general in their categories. Benjamin Franklin recognized this fault when he wrote, "I proposed to myself, for the sake of clearness, to...with fewer ideas annexed to each, than a few names and more ideas." Conduct codes in general have erred in using categories so general as to be relatively... | |
 | James Brodrick - 1956 - 386 páginas
...steady, uniform rectitude of conduct. For this purpose I therefore tried the following method. ... I included under thirteen names of virtues all that...that time occurred to me as necessary or desirable. . . . These names of virtues were, Temperance, Silence, Order, Resolution, Frugality, Industry, Sincerity,... | |
 | Giles Gunn - 1981 - 489 páginas
...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... | |
 | Various - 1994 - 676 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... | |
 | Anders Breidlid - 1996 - 428 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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