 | Benjamin Franklin, Julian Willis Abernethy - 1892 - 200 Seiten
...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 to each, than...with their precepts, were : 1. TEMPERANCE. Eat not to dullness ; drink not to elevation. 3. SILENCE. Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself ;... | |
 | Francis Newton Thorpe - 1893 - 540 Seiten
...self-education in morals. He drew up a catalogue of the virtues, and, for sake of clearness, used "rather more names, with fewer ideas annexed to each, than a few names with more ideas." These virtues were thirteen in number: Temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1895 - 310 Seiten
...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 to each, than...their precepts, were : 1. TEMPERANCE. — Eat not to duluess; drink not to elevation. 2. SILENCE. — Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself;... | |
 | Henry Hardwicke - 1895 - 128 Seiten
...mentally, even to our avarice and ambition. I proposed to myself, for the sake of clearness, to use rather more names, with fewer ideas annexed to each, than...fully expressed the extent I gave to its meaning. " The names of virtues, with their precepts, were: " 1. TEMPERANCE. — Eat not to dullness ; drink... | |
 | 1895 - 406 Seiten
...and avoid the other. But I soon found I had undertaken a task of more difficulty than I had imagined. "I included under thirteen names of virtues all that...These names of virtues, with their precepts, were : " i. Temperance. Eat not to dullness ; drink not to elevation. " 2. Silence. Speak not but what may... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1896 - 280 Seiten
...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 to each, than...their precepts were: — 1. TEMPERANCE. Eat not to dullness ; drink not to elevation. 2. SILENCE. Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself avoid... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1896 - 250 Seiten
...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 to each, than...their precepts were: — 1. TEMPERANCE. Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation. 2. SILENCE. Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself, avoid... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1896 - 220 Seiten
...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 to each, than...These names of virtues, with their precepts, were : i. TEMPERANCE. Eat not to dullness ; drink not to elevation. 2. SILENCE. Speak not but what may benefit... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1897 - 330 Seiten
...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 to each, than...with their precepts, were : 1. TEMPERANCE. Eat not to dullnecs ; drink not to elevation. 2. SILENCE. Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid... | |
 | 1900 - 594 Seiten
...mental, even to our avarice and ambition. I proposed for myself, for the sake of clearness, to use rather more names, with fewer ideas annexed to each, than...with their precepts, were : 1. Temperance. Eat not to dulluess ; drink not to elevation. 2. Silence. Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself ;... | |
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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,... 
