 | Benjamin Franklin - 1905 - 496 Seiten
...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. Eat not to dullness ; drink not to elevation. 2. SILENCE. Speak not but what may benefit... | |
 | 1906 - 794 Seiten
...names with more ideas; and I concluded 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 .1 gu\e to its meaning. These names of virtues, with their precepts, w ere : 1.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1908 - 430 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 - 1909 - 280 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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1909 - 432 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 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 - 1910 - 216 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 - 1912 - 274 Seiten
...more ideas; and I included under thirteen names of virtues all that at that time occurred to me 25as necessary or desirable, and annexed to each a short...virtues, with their precepts, were: 1. TEMPERANCE. S0 Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation. 2. SILENCE. Speak not but what may benefit others or... | |
 | Jesse Shire Myer - 1912 - 358 Seiten
...time, occurred to me as necessary and desirable; annexed to each a short precept which fully expresses the extent I gave to its meaning. "These names of...their precepts, were: (1) Temperance — Eat not to dullness, drink not to elevation. (2) Silence — Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself;... | |
 | Jesse Shire Myer - 1912 - 360 Seiten
...names, with fewer ideas annexed to each, than a few names with more ideas; and I included under 13 names of virtues all that, at that time, occurred to me as necessary and desirable; annexed to each a short precept which fully expresses the extent I gave to its meaning.... | |
 | Werner Sombart - 1915 - 416 Seiten
...fewer ideas under the same name. ... 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 the virtues, with their precepts, were : 1. Temperance. — Eat not to dullness, drink... | |
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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,... 
