 My intention being to acquire the habitude of all these virtues, I judged it would be well not to distract my attention by attempting the whole at once but to fix it on one of them at a time, and when I should be master of that, then to proceed to another,...  Spirit of the English Magazines - Page 3291818Full view - About this book
 | George Otto Trevelyan - United States - 1898 - 458 pages
...I judged it would be well not to distract my attention by attempting the whole at once, but to fix it on one of them at a time ; and, when I should be master of that, then to proceed to another, till I should have gone through the thirteen. And, as the previous acquisition of some might facilitate... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1899 - 204 pages
...I judg'd it would be well not to distract my attention by attempting the whole at once, but to fix it on one of them at a time ; and, when I should be...that, then to proceed to another, and so on, till I should have gone through the thirteen ; and, as the previous acquisition of some might facilitate... | |
 | Josephus Nelson Larned - Conduct of life - 1901 - 518 pages
...I judg'd it would be well not to distract my attention by attempting the whole at once, but to fix it on one of them at a time; and, when I should be...that, then to proceed to another, and so on, till I should have gone thro' the thirteen; and, as the previous acquisition of some might facilitate the... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1901 - 296 pages
...I judged it would be well not to distract my attention by attempting the whole at once, but to fix it on one of them at a time ; and when I should be...that, then to proceed to another ; and so on till I should have gone through the thirteen. And as the previous acquisition of some might facilitate the... | |
 | Josephus Nelson Larned - Conduct of life - 1902 - 184 pages
...I judged it would be well not to distract my attention by attempting the whole at once, but to fix it on one of them at a time ; and, when I should be master of that, 51 then to proceed to another, and so on, till I should have gone through the thirteen ; and, as the... | |
 | Eustace Miles - Boys - 1904 - 644 pages
...I judged it would be well not to <listract my attention by attempting the whole at once, but to fix it on one of them at a time ; and when I should be...that, then to proceed to another, and so on, till I should have gone through the thirteen.' (Temperance, Silence, Order, Resolution, Frugality. Industry,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1905 - 238 pages
...I judged it would be well not to distract my attention by attempting the whole at once, but to fix it on one of them at a time; and, when I should be...that, then to proceed to another, and so on, till I should have gone thro' the thirteen; and as the previous acquisition of some might facilitate the... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1905 - 354 pages
...I judg'd it would be well not to distract my attention by attempting the whole at once, but to fix it on one of them at a time ; and, when I should be...that, then to proceed to another, and so on, till I should have gone thro' the thirteen ; 1oo and, as the previous acquisition of some might facilitate... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Inventors - 1906 - 268 pages
...attention by attempting the whole at once, but to fix it on one of them at a 88 THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF time; and, when I should be master of that, then to proceed to another, and so on, till I should have gone thro' the thirteen ; and, as the previous acquisition of some might facilitate the... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1908 - 430 pages
...I judged it would be well not to distract my attention by attempting the whole at once, but to fix it on one of them at a time ; and, when I should be...that, then to proceed to another, and so on, till I should have gone through the thirteen ; and as the previous acquisition of some might facilitate... | |
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