 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,...  Notes and Queries and Historic Magazine - Page 51900Full view - About this book
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 566 pages
...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...These names of virtues, with their precepts, were; 1. TEMPERANCE,—Eat not to dulneas: drink not to elevation. 2. SILENCE.—Speak not but what may benefit... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 558 pages
...mental, even to our avarice and ambition. I proposed to myself, for the sake of clearness, to use rattier more names, with fewer ideas annexed to each, than...their precepts, were; 1. TEMPERANCE — Eat not to dulness: drink not to elevation. 2. SILENCE.— Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself:... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 566 pages
...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...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 pages
...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... | |
 | 1822 - 336 pages
...appetite, inclination, or passion, bodily or mental, even to our avarice or ambition. I proposed to myself, for the sake of clearness, to use rather more...precepts, were : — 1. TEMPERANCE. — Eat not to dullness: drink not to elevation. 2. SILENCE. — Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself:... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1824 - 308 pages
...appetite, inclination, or passion, bodily or mental, even to our avarice and ambition. 5 I proposed to myself, for the sake of clearness, to use rather 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 pages
...appetite, inclination, or passion, bodily or mental, even to our avarice and ambition. 5 I proposed to myself, for the sake of clearness, to use rather 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 pages
...appetite, inclination, or passion, bodily 01 mental, even to our avarice and ambition. 1 proposed to n strangers, virtue!, with their precepts, were, 1. TEMPERANCE. — Eat not to dulness: drink not to elevation.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 674 pages
...appetite, inclination, or passion, bodily or mental, even to our avarice and ambition. f proposed to myself, for the sake of clearness, to use rather more...their precepts, were; 1. TEMPERANCE. — Eat not to dulness; drink not to elevation. 2. SILENCE. — Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself;... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 664 pages
...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...their precepts, were; 1. TEMPERANCE. — Eat not to dulness; drink not to elevation. 2. SILENCE. — Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself;... | |
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