 | Anders Breidlid - 1996 - 428 pàgines
...was often surprised by another; habit took the advantage of inattention; inclination was sometimes too strong for reason. I concluded, at length, that...dependence on a steady, uniform rectitude of conduct. For this purpose I therefore contrived the following method. In the various enumerations of the moral... | |
 | William J. Federer, William Joseph Federer - 1994 - 868 pàgines
...can have no happiness. The pleasures of this world are rather from God's goodness than our own merit. Contrary habits must be broken, and good ones acquired...dependence on a steady, uniform rectitude of conduct. Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no ambition corrupt thee, no example sway thee,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1998 - 404 pàgines
...was often surpriz'd by another. Habit took the Advantage of Inattention. Inclination was sometimes too strong for Reason. I concluded at length, that...speculative Conviction that it was our Interest to be compleatly virtuous, was not sufficient to prevent our Slipping, and that the contrary Habits must... | |
 | Amy Mandelker, Elizabeth Powers - 1999 - 552 pàgines
...was often surprised by another; habit took the advantage of inattention; inclination was sometimes too strong for reason. I concluded, at length, that...dependence on a steady, uniform rectitude of conduct. For this purpose I therefore contrived the following method. In the various enumerations of the moral... | |
 | James Campbell - 1999 - 316 pàgines
...practical success. Something more effective than good intentions was going to be required, he thought, "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" (A: 148). In the hope of reaching moral perfection,... | |
 | Woodruff D. Smith - 2002 - 358 pàgines
...concluded at length. that the mere speculative Conviction that it was in our Interest to be compleatly virtuous. was not sufficient to prevent our Slipping....ones acquired and established. before we can have any Dependance on a steady uniform Rectitude of Conduct. For this purpose I therefore contriv'd the following... | |
 | Walter Isaacson - 2005 - 576 pàgines
...was often surprised by another; habit took the advantage of inattention; inclination was sometimes too strong for reason. I concluded, at length, that...dependence on a steady, uniform rectitude of conduct. For this purpose I therefore contrived the following method. In the various enumerations of the moral... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 2004 - 446 pàgines
...I was often surpriz'd hy another. Hahit took the Advamage of Inatteution. Inclination was sometimes too strong for Reason. I concluded at length, that the mere speculative Comiction that it was our Imerest to he compleatly virtuous, was not sufficieut to prevem our Slipping,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 2005 - 320 pàgines
...was often surprised by another; habit took the advantage of inattention; inclination was sometimes too strong for reason. I concluded at length that...dependence on a steady, uniform rectitude of conduct. For this purpose I therefore tried the following method. In the various enumerations of the moral virtues... | |
 | Jonathan Haidt - 2006 - 332 pàgines
...was often surprised by another; habit took the advantage of inattention; inclination was sometimes too strong for reason. I concluded, at length, that...have any dependence on a steady, uniform rectitude of conduct.5 Franklin was a brilliant intuitive psychologist. He realized that the rider can be successful... | |
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I had undertaken a task of more difficulty than I had imagined. While my care was employed in guarding against one fault, I was often surprised by another ; habit took the advantage of inattention ; inclination was sometimes too strong for reason. I concluded,... 
