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" I determined to give a week's strict attention to each of the virtues successively. Thus, in the first week, my great guard was to avoid every the least offence against Temperance, leaving the other virtues to their ordinary chance, only marking every... "
The Life of Benjamin Franklin: Containing the Autobiography, with Notes and ... - Page 109
by Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1856 - 612 pages
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Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...

Benjamin Franklin - Philosophers - 1818 - 566 pages
...TEMPERANCE. Eat not to dulness : drink not to elevation. I determined to give a week's strict attention to each of the virtues successively. Thus, in the first...evening the faults of the day. Thus, if in the first Tem. Sun. M. T. W. Th. F. S. Sil. Ord. * * * * Res. * * * * * Fru. * * Ind. * * Sine. Jus. * Mod. Clea....
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The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: [Autobiography

Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1818 - 558 pages
...TEMPERANCE. Eat not to dulness : drink not to elevation. I determined to give a week's strict attention to each of the virtues successively. Thus in the first...marking every evening the faults of the day. Thus, ifin the first week I could keep my first line marked T. clear of spots, I supposed the habit of that...
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Spirit of the English Magazines, Volume 3

1818 - 502 pages
...— Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation. I determined to give a week's strict attention to each of the virtues successively. Thus in the first...every the least offence against Temperance : leaving tha other virtues to their ordinary chance, only marking every evening the faults of the day. Thus,...
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The Art of Employing Time to the Greatest Advantage, the True Source of ...

Conduct of life - 1822 - 336 pages
...Moderation Cleanliness i Tranquillity Chastity Humility I determined to give a week's strict attention to each of the virtues successively. Thus, in the first week, my great guard was to avoid the least ofience against Temperance; leaving the other virtues to their ordinary chance, only marking...
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The Moral Instructor, and Guide to Virtue: Being a Compendium of Moral ...

Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1824 - 308 pages
...* * Ind. * ' ' Sine. Jus. Mod. Clea. Tran. Chas. Hum. 15 I determined to give a week's attention to each of the virtues successively. Thus in the first week, my great regard was to avoid every the least offence against Temperance; leaving the other virtues to their...
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The Moral Instructor, and Guide to Virtue: Being a Compendium of Moral ...

Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1830 - 336 pages
...1733. and is in the )>ossession son of Dr. Franklin. 15 I determined to give a week's attention to each of the virtues successively. Thus in the first week, my great regard was to avoid every the least offence against Temperance; leaving the other virtues to their...
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The Bible, the Missal, and the Breviary: Or, Ritualism Self ..., Volume 1

Catholic Church - 1853 - 324 pages
...that day. I determined to give a week's strict attention to each of the virtues successively. Thus, on the first week, my great guard was to avoid every...only marking every evening the faults of the day. Proceeding thus to the last, I could get through a course complete in thirteen weeks, and four courses...
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The Life of Benjamin Franklin: Written by Himself ; to which is Added His ...

Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 pages
...TEMPKRANC E. Eat not to dullness- drink not to elevation. I determined to give a week's strict attention to each of the virtues successively. Thus, in the first...week, my great guard was to avoid every, the least, offense against Temperance; leaving the other virtues to their ordinary chance, only marking every...
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The Signs of the Times: In a Series of Eight Lectures

Nathan Lewis Rice - End of the world - 1855 - 234 pages
...should have gone through the thirteen." I determined to give a week's strict attention to each of these virtues successively. Thus in the first week, my great guard was to avoid even the least offence against Temperance ;. leaving the other virtues to their ordinary chance, only...
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The Youth's Companion and Counsellor

William Chambers - Conduct of life - 1858 - 378 pages
...committed respecting that virtue upon that day. 'I determined to give a week's strict attention to each of the virtues successively. Thus, in the first...the first week I could keep my first line, marked Tem., clear of spots, I supposed the habit of that virtue so much strengthened, and its opposite weakened,...
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