 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1818 - 556 pages
...contrary habits must be broken, and good ones acquired and established, before we can have any dependance on a steady uniform rectitude of conduct. For this...following method. In the various enumerations of the moral rirtues I had met with in my reading, I found the catalogue more or less numerous, as different writers... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1818 - 558 pages
...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 can have any dependance on a steady uniform rectitude of conduct. For this purpose I therefore tried the following... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1824 - 308 pages
...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,...steady, uniform rectitude of conduct. For this purpose, therefore, I tried the following method: 4 In the various enumerations of the moral virtues I had met... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1830 - 336 pages
...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 can haveany dependence on a steady, uniform rectitude of conduct. For this purpose, therefore, I tried... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1834 - 682 pages
...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 can have any dépendance on a steady uniform rectitude of conduct For this purpose I therefore tried the following... | |
 | Orville Luther Holley - Inventors - 1848 - 534 pages
...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 can have any dependence on a steady and uniform rectitude of conduct." Perseverance, however, and a strong tenacity of purpose, were among... | |
 | Success - Conduct of life - 1851 - 362 pages
...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 can have any dependance on a steady, uniform rectitude of conduct. For this purpose he tried the following singular,... | |
 | Catholic Church - 1853 - 324 pages
...slipping ; and that the contrary habits must be broken, and good ones acquired and established, before one can have any dependence on a steady, uniform rectitude of conduct. For this purpose, I made a little book, on which I allotted a page for each of the virtues. I ruled each page with red... | |
 | William Chambers - Conduct of life - 1858 - 378 pages
...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,...steady uniform rectitude of conduct.' For this purpose, he selected thirteen virtues, generally annexing to them explanatory precepts, which ought to be rigorously... | |
 | 1858 - 348 pages
...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 can have any dependance on a steady, uniform rectitude of conduct. For this purpose he tried the following singular,... | |
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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... 
