 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 566 Seiten
...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...all that at that time occurred to me as necessary or defiirable; and annexed to each a short precept, which folly expressed the extent I gave to its meanmg.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 556 Seiten
...or passion, bodily or mental, rven to our avarice and ambition. I proposed to myself, for the sako of clearness, to use rather more names, with fewer ideas annexed to each, than a few names with more idi'as; and I included under thirteen names of virtues, all that at that time oa urred to me as necessary... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1824 - 308 Seiten
...pleasure, appetite, inclination, or passion, bodily or mental, even to our avarice and ambition. 5 I proposed to myself, for the sake of clearness, to...more names, with fewer ideas annexed to each, than * This honest confession of Mrs. Franklin, discloses the principal cause of the slavery under which... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1830 - 336 Seiten
...pleasure, appetite, inclination, or passion, bodily or mental, even to our avarice and ambition. 5 I proposed to myself, for the sake of clearness, to...more names, with fewer ideas annexed to each, than * This honest confession of Mrs. Franklin, discloses the principal cause of the slavery under which... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1834 - 682 Seiten
...pleasure, appetite, inclination, or passion, bodily 01 mental, even to our avarice and ambition. 1 proposed to myself, for the sake of clearness, to...expressed the extent I gave to its meaning. These names of virtue!, with their precepts, were, 1. TEMPERANCE. — Eat not to dulness: drink not to elevation.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1853 - 522 Seiten
...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 - 1856 - 670 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1859 - 680 Seiten
...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 rtames, with fewer ideas annexed to each, than a few names with more ideas ; and I included under thirteen... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Epes Sargent - 1866 - 270 Seiten
...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... | |
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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,... 
