 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 evening...  Spirit of the English Magazines - Page 3291818Full view - About this book
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1905 - 238 pages
...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...the habit of that virtue so much strengthened, and its opposite weakened, that I might venture extending my attention to include the next, and for the... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1905 - 354 pages
...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...could keep my first line, marked T, clear of spots, I suppos'd the habit of that virtue so much strengthen'd, and its opposite weaken'd, that I might venture... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1908 - 430 pages
...j_ T T o. ft l_ 7 t f 7 K. 7_ t 7 F. T I. — — — — , — - — — — — J. M. C. T. C. H. chance, only marking every evening the faults of the...the habit of that virtue so much strengthened, and its opposite weakened, that I might venture extending my attention to include the next, and for the... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1909 - 236 pages
...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...the habit of that virtue so much strengthened, and its opposite weakened, that I might venture extending my attention to include the next, and for the... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1909 - 280 pages
...Jus. Mod. Clea. Tran. Chas. Hum. was to avoid every day the least offense against temperance ; leaving other virtues to their ordinary chance, only marking...the first week I could keep my first line, marked Tern., clear of spots, I supposed the habit of that virtue so much strengthened and its opposite weakness... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1910 - 216 pages
...against Temperance, leaving the other virtues to their ordinary chance, only marking every even^ ing the faults of the day. Thus, if in the first week...the habit of that virtue so much strengthened, and its opposite weakened, that 1 The following is taken from the commentary of Hierocles upon the Golden... | |
 | 1912 - 366 pages
...leaving the other virtues to their ordinary chance, only marking every evening the fault of the days. Thus, if in the first week I could keep my first line...the habit of that virtue so much strengthened, and its opposite so much weakened, that I might venture extending my attention to include the next, and... | |
 | Jesse Shire Myer - Biography & Autobiography - 1912 - 360 pages
...only marking every evening the fault of the days. Thus, if in the first week I could keep my flrst line marked T clear of spots, I supposed the habit of that virtue so much strengthened, and its opposite so much weakened, that I might venture extending my attention to include the next, and... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1912 - 274 pages
...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 evening the faults of the day. 5 Thus, if in the first week I could keep my first line, marked T, clear of spots, I supposed the habit... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - American prose literature - 1916 - 760 pages
...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...the habit of that virtue so much strengthened, and its opposite weakened, that I might venture extending my attention to include the next; and for the... | |
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