 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 556 páginas
...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 - 1818 - 558 páginas
...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 - 1824 - 308 páginas
...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 - 1830 - 336 páginas
...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 - 1834 - 682 páginas
...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 - 1848 - 534 páginas
...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 - 1851 - 362 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 - 1858 - 378 páginas
...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 páginas
...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... 
