. Benjamin Franklin: his autobiography : with a narrative of his public life and services. t to dullness ; drink not to elevation. Sun. M. T. W. Th. F. S. 1 Tern. * -Jr * * * ?S- * * * Res. * * Fru. * * Ind. * Sine. Jus. 1 Mod. 1 Clea. 1 Tran. 1 Chas. 1 Hum. 1 1 determined to give a weeks strict attention toeach of the virtues successively. Thus, in the firstweek, my great guard was to avoid every the leastoffense against Temperance, leaving the other vir-tues to their ordinary chance, only marking everyevening the faults of the day. Thus, if in the firstweek I could keep my first lin
. Benjamin Franklin: his autobiography : with a narrative of his public life and services. t to dullness ; drink not to elevation. Sun. M. T. W. Th. F. S. 1 Tern. * -Jr * * * ?S- * * * Res. * * Fru. * * Ind. * Sine. Jus. 1 Mod. 1 Clea. 1 Tran. 1 Chas. 1 Hum. 1 1 determined to give a weeks strict attention toeach of the virtues successively. Thus, in the firstweek, my great guard was to avoid every the leastoffense against Temperance, leaving the other vir-tues to their ordinary chance, only marking everyevening the faults of the day. Thus, if in the firstweek I could keep my first line, marked T, clear ofspots, I supposed the habit of that virtue so muchstrengthened, and its opposite weakened, that I might * This little book is dated 1st July, 1733. LIFE OF FRANKLIN. 135 venture extending my attention to include the next,and for tlie following week keep both lines clearof spots. Proceeding thus to the last, I could getthrough a course complete in thirteen weeks, andfour courses in a year. And like him who, havinga garden to weed, does not attempt to eradicate ail. the bad herbs at once, which w^ould exceed his reachand his strength, but works on one of the beds at atime, and, having accomplished the first, proceeds toa second, so I should have, I hoped, the encouragingpleasure of seeing on my pages the progress made invirtue, by clearing successively my lines of theirspots, till in the end, by a number of courses, Ishould be happy in viewing a clean book, after athirteen weeks daily examination. This my little book had for its motto these linesfrom Addisons Cato: 136 LIFE OF FRANKLIN. Here will I hold. If theres a power above us(And that there is, all nature cries aloudThrough all her works), He must delight in virtue ;And that which he delights in must be happy. Another from Cicero, 0 vitae Philosophia dux ! O virtutum indagatrix expultrixque vitio-rum I Unus dies, bene et ex praeceptis tuis actus, peccanti immortalitatiest anteponendus. Another from tlie
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