 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,...  Bizarre; Notes and Queries; a Monthly Magazine of History, Folk-lore ... - Page 2651886Full view - About this book
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 566 pages
...passion, bodily or mental, even to our avarice and ambition. I proposed to myself, for the sake of clearness, to use rather more names, with fewer ideas...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 - 566 pages
...passion, bodily or mental, even to our avarice and ambition. I proposed to myself, for the sake of clearness, to use rather more names, with fewer ideas...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
...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
...or passion, bodily or mental, even to our avarice or ambition. I proposed to myself, for the sake of clearness, to use rather more names, with fewer ideas...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
...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
...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
...passion, bodily 01 mental, even to our avarice and ambition. 1 proposed to myself, for the sake of clearness, to use rather more names, with fewer ideas...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 pages
...passion, bodily or 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 * This paper is dated Nov. 20th, 1728; and bears the marks of juvenility in the style. In it Franklin... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 pages
...passion, bodily or mental, even to our avarice and ambition. I proposed to myself, for the sake of clearness, to use rather more names, with fewer ideas...their precepts, were : 1. TEMPERANCE. — Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation. 2. SILENCE. — Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself;... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1856 - 670 pages
...passion, bodily or mental, even to our avarice and ambition. I proposed to myself, for the sake of clearness, to use rather more names, with fewer ideas...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... | |
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