 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
 | George Rice Carpenter - American prose literature - 1916 - 798 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... | |
 | Asa Don Dickinson - Biography - 1916 - 230 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... | |
 | Enoch Burton Gowin - Business - 1919 - 518 pages
...in the first week, my great guard was to avoid every 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 - Biography & Autobiography - 1923 - 328 pages
...ELEVATION. S. M. T. W. T. F. S. T. S. * * * * O. * * * * * • * R. • * F. * * I. * S. J. M. C. T. C. H. every evening the faults of the day. Thus, if in the...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... | |
 | Robert Shafer - American literature - 1926 - 1410 pages
...the first week, my great guard was to avoid every the least offense against Temperance, leaving the thy shrine! THE WISH OF TO-DAY1 its opposite weakened, that I might venture extending my attention to include the next, and for the... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - Literature - 1926 - 924 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...-could keep my first line, marked T, clear of spots, T supposed the habit of that virtue so much strengthened, aad its opposite .weakened, that I might... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - Literature - 1926 - 928 pages
...otter virtues to their ordinary chance, only •ery evening the faults of the day. TLus,, if in thq. week I could keep my first line, marked T, clear of...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... | |
 | Werrett Wallace Charters - Character - 1927 - 396 pages
...the first week, my great guard was to avoid even 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... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Edward Douglas Snyder - American literature - 1927 - 1288 pages
...the first week my great guard was to avoid every day 50 the least offense against temperance; leaving other virtues to their ordinary chance, only marking...the first week I could keep my first line, marked Torn., clear of spots, I supposed the habit of that virtue so much strengthened and its opposite weakened,... | |
 | James Brodrick - Christian saints - 1956 - 386 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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