 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1818 - 556 pages
...this purpose I therefore tried the following method. In the various enumerations of the moral rirtues I had met with in my reading, I found the catalogue...appetite, inclination, or passion, bodily or mental, rven to our avarice and ambition. I proposed to myself, for the sako of clearness, to use rather more... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1822 - 336 pages
...on a steady uniform rectitude of conduct : for this purpose I therefore tried the following method. In the various enumerations of the moral virtues I...Temperance, for example, was by some confined to eating or drinking, while, by others, it was extended to mean ihe moderating every other pleasure^ appetite,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1834 - 682 pages
...dépendance on a steady uniform rectitude of conduct For this purpose I therefore tried the following method. In the various enumerations of the moral virtues I...Temperance, for example, was by some confined to eating anc drinking; while by others it was extended to mean me moderating every other pleasure, appetite,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1850 - 666 pages
...on a steady, uniform rectitude of conduct. For this purpose I therefore tried the following method. In the various enumerations of the moral virtues I...included more or fewer ideas under the same name. Ternperancei for example, was by some confined to eating and drinking; while by others it was extended... | |
 | Robert Kemp PHILP - 1859 - 182 pages
...steady, uniform, rectitude of conduct : for this purpose I therefore tried the following method : — In the various enumerations of the moral virtues I...Temperance, for example, was by some confined to eating or drinking, while by others it was extended to mean the moderating every other pleasure, appetite,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Epes Sargent - 1866 - 270 pages
...a steady, uniform rectitude, of conduct. For this purpose, I therefore tried the following method : In the various enumerations of the moral virtues I...and drinking ; while by others it was extended to moan • the moderating every other pleasure, appetite, inclination or passion, bodily or mental, even... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1868 - 434 pages
...steady, uniform rectitude of conduct. For this purpose I therefore contrived the following method. In the various enumerations of the moral virtues I had met with in my reading, l found the catalogue more or less numerous, as diflerent writers included more or fewer ideas under... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - United States - 1882 - 680 pages
...on a steady, uniform rectitude of conduct. For this purpose I therefore tried the following method. In the various enumerations of the moral virtues I...eating and drinking ; while by others it was extended tc mean the moderating every other pleasure, appetite, inclination, or passion, bodily or mental, even... | |
 | 1886 - 580 pages
...following systematic method, which we will give in his own words : " In the various enumerations or the moral virtues I had met with in my reading, I...under the same name. Temperance, for example, was confined by some to eating and drinking ; while by others it was extended to mean the moderating of... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1891 - 142 pages
...steady, uniform rectitude of conduct. For this purpose I therefore contrived the following method. In the various enumerations of the moral virtues I...less numerous, as different writers included more or 5* fewer ideas under the same name. Temperance, for example, was by some confined to eating and drinking,... | |
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In the various enumerations of the moral virtues I had met with in my reading, I found the catalogue more or less numerous, as different writers included more or fewer ideas under the »/ * same name. 
