 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 - Pagina 34door Benjamin Franklin - 1834Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1900 - 594 pagina’s
...appetite, inclination or passion, bodily or mental, even to our avarice and ambition. I proposed for myself, for the sake of clearness, to use rather more...extent I gave to its meaning : '• These names of virtues, with their precepts, were : 1. Temperance. Eat not to dulluess ; drink not to elevation. 2.... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter - 1898 - 498 pagina’s
...I proposed 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... | |
 | george rice carpenter - 1898 - 498 pagina’s
...I proposed 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 - 1899 - 204 pagina’s
...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...expressed the extent I gave to its meaning. These names of virtues, with their precepts, were : r. TEMPERANCE. Eat not to dullness ; drink not to elevation. 2.... | |
 | Howard Payson Arnold - 1899 - 408 pagina’s
...Franklin in his "Autobiography" says in regard to his "various enumerations of the moral virtues " : — " I included under thirteen names of virtues all that...that time occurred to me as necessary or desirable." Among these truthfulness does not appear, the nearest approach to it being " sincerity," which is by... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1901 - 296 pagina’s
...pleasure, appetite, inclination, or passion, bodily or mentally, 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. The names of virtues, with their precepts, were : 1. TEMPERANCE. — Eat not to dullness ; drink not... | |
 | Josephus Nelson Larned - 1901 - 520 pagina’s
...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 - 1905 - 238 pagina’s
...pleasure, appetite, inclination, or passion, bodily or mental, even to our avarice and ambition. I proposed to myself, for the sake of clearness, to...a few names with more ideas; and I included under thiis teen names of virtues all that at that time occurred to me as necessary or desirable, and annexed... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1905 - 354 pagina’s
...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 - 1908 - 430 pagina’s
...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.... | |
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