 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.  Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin - Page 34by Benjamin Franklin - 1834Full view - About this book
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1818 - 566 pages
...other pleasure, appetite, inclination or passion, bodily or mental, even to our avarice and ambition. I proposed to myself, for the sake of clearness, to...expressed the extent I gave to its meaning. These names of virtues, with their precepts, were; 1. TEMPERANCE,—Eat not to dulneas: drink not to elevation. 2.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 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...the extent I gave to its meaning. • These names of virtues, with their precepts, were; 1. TEMPERANCE — Eat not to dulness: drink not to elevation. 2.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Philosophers - 1818 - 566 pages
...other pleasure, appetite, inclination or passion, bodily or mental, even to our avarice and ambition. I proposed to myself, for the sake of clearness, to...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 - United States - 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... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1822 - 336 pages
...other pleasure^ appetite, inclination, or passion, bodily or mental, even to our avarice or ambition. I proposed to myself, for the sake of clearness, to...expressed the extent I gave to its meaning. These names of virtues, with their precepts, were : — 1. TEMPERANCE. — Eat not to dullness: drink not to elevation.... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1824 - 308 pages
...pleasure, appetite, inclination, or passion, bodily or mental, even to our avarice and ambition. 5 I proposed to myself, for the sake of clearness, to...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 - Ethics - 1830 - 336 pages
...pleasure, appetite, inclination, or passion, bodily or mental, even to our avarice and ambition. 5 I proposed to myself, for the sake of clearness, to...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 - 1840 - 674 pages
...pleasure, appetite, inclination, or passion, bodily or mental, even to our avarice and ambition. f proposed to myself, for the sake of clearness, to...expressed the extent I gave to its meaning. These names of virtues, with their precepts, were; 1. TEMPERANCE. — Eat not to dulness; drink not to elevation.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - Statesmen - 1848 - 676 pages
...pleasure, appetite, inclination, or passion, bodily or mental, even to our avarice and ambition. I proposed to myself, for the sake of clearness, to...expressed the extent I gave to its meaning. These names of virtues, with their precepts, were; 1. TEMPERANCE. — Eat not to dulness; drink not to elevation.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Inventors - 1853 - 522 pages
...other pleasure, appetite, inclination or passion, bodily or mental, even to our avarice and ambition. I proposed to myself, for the sake of clearness, to...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... | |
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