| Benjamin Franklin - 1888 - 330 pages
...their precepts, were : i. TEMPERANCE. » Eat not to dullness ; drink not to elevation. 2. SILENCE. Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation. 3. ORDER. Let all your things have their places ; let each part of your business have its time. 4.... | |
| William M. Thayer - Biography & Autobiography - 1889 - 510 pages
...use, as follows : "i. TEMPERANCE. — Eat not to dulness ; drink not to elevation. " 2. SILENCE. — Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself ; avoid trifling conversation. " 3. ORDER. — Let all your things have their places ; let each part of your business have its time.... | |
| Richard A. Wells - Etiquette - 1890 - 548 pages
...following rules to regulate his conduct through life : — Eat not to dullness ; drink not to elevation Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation. Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time. Resolve to perform... | |
| Education - 1913 - 456 pages
...PENNED BY BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. Temperance — Eat not to dullness ; drink not to elevation. Silence — Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling Conversation. Order — Let all your things have their places ; let each part of your business nave its time. Frugality... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1891 - 142 pages
...precepts were : — 1. — TEMPERANCE. Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation. 2. — SILENCE. Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation. 3. — ORDER. Let all your things have their places ; let each part of your business have its time.... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - Biography - 1892 - 202 pages
...with their precepts, were : 1. TEMPERANCE. Eat not to dullness ; drink not to elevation. 2. SILENCE. Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself ; avoid trifling conversation. 3. ORDER. Let all your things have their places ; let each part of your business have its time. 4.... | |
| Richard A. Wells (A.M.) - Bookbinding - 1894 - 538 pages
...following rules to reg ulate his conduct through Hie : — Eat not to dullness ; drink not to elevation Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation. Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time. Resolve to perform... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1895 - 310 pages
...their precepts, were : 1. TEMPERANCE. — Eat not to duluess; drink not to elevation. 2. SILENCE. — Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation. 3. OKDER. — Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.... | |
| Shorthand - 1895 - 406 pages
...their precepts, were : " i. Temperance. Eat not to dullness ; drink not to elevation. " 2. Silence. Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation. " 3. Order. Let all your things have their place ; let each part of your business have its time. "4.... | |
| Henry Hardwicke - Happiness - 1895 - 128 pages
...precepts, were: " 1. TEMPERANCE. — Eat not to dullness ; drink not to elevation. " 2. SILENCE. — Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation. " 3. ORDER. — Let all your things have their places ; let each part of your business have its time.... | |
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