 | george rice carpenter - 1898 - 498 Seiten
...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... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter - 1898 - 498 Seiten
...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 - 494 Seiten
...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 the extent I gave to its meaning. These names of virtues, with their precepts were : i. TEMPERANCE... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1899 - 204 Seiten
...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...These names of virtues, with their precepts, were : r. TEMPERANCE. Eat not to dullness ; drink not to elevation. 2. SILENCE. Speak not but what may benefit... | |
 | Howard Payson Arnold - 1899 - 408 Seiten
...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 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 not... | |
 | Josephus Nelson Larned - 1901 - 520 Seiten
...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... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Education - 1903 - 1300 Seiten
...virtues, and for the sake of clearness used " rather FRANKLIN 3 INFLUENCE IN AMEBICAN EDUCATION. , with fewer ideas annexed to each, than a few names with more ideas." The^e virtues were thirteen in number: Temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1905 - 354 Seiten
...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 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 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... | |
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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,... 
