 | George Rice Carpenter - 1898 - 498 страници
...of inattention ; inclination was sometimes too strong for reason. I concluded, at length, that the mere speculative conviction that it was our interest...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... | |
 | george rice carpenter - 1898 - 498 страници
...advantage of inattention; inclination was sometimes too strong for reason. I concluded, at length, that the mere speculative conviction that it was our interest...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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1899 - 204 страници
...of inattention ; inclination was sometimes too strong for reason. I concluded, at length, that the mere speculative conviction that it was our interest...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... | |
 | Josephus Nelson Larned - 1901 - 520 страници
...of inattention ; inclination was sometimes too strong for reason. I concluded, at length, that the mere speculative conviction that it was our interest...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... | |
 | Aaron Schuyler - 1902 - 476 страници
...actual, but in the plan whereby he attempted to realize his ideal. He says: "I concluded at length that mere speculative conviction that it was our interest...this purpose I therefore tried the following method." 339 Franklin gives the following list of virtues with their precepts : (1) Temperance. — Eat not... | |
 | David Excelmons Cloyd - 1902 - 126 страници
...sufficient to keep us from slipping, but the contrary habits must be broken and good ones acquired before we can have any dependence on a steady, uniform rectitude of conduct. He made a list of thirteen virtues and annexed to each a precept which fully expressed the extent which... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Education - 1903 - 1300 страници
...advantage of inattention; inclination was sometimes too strong for reason. I concluded at length that the mere speculative conviction, that it was our interest...dependence on a steady uniform rectitude of conduct. In other words, he proposed to train himself in morality as tu™ dufln'Jd*"1 vir" he had trained himself... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1905 - 354 страници
...of inattention ; inclination was sometimes too strong for reason. I concluded, at length, that the mere speculative conviction that it was our interest...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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1905 - 238 страници
...advantage of inattention; inclination was sometimes too strong for reason. I concluded, at length, that the mere speculative conviction that it was our interest...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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1908 - 430 страници
...of inattention ; inclination was sometimes too strong for reason. I concluded, at length, that the mere speculative conviction that it was our interest...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... | |
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I concluded, at length, that the mere speculative conviction that it was our interest to be completely virtuous, was not sufficient to prevent our slipping ; and that the contrary habits must be broken, and good ones acquired and established, before we... 
