 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
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1910 - 216 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... | |
 | Jesse Shire Myer - Medicine, Military - 1912 - 358 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...of that, then to proceed to another, and so on till I should have gone through the whole 13; and as the previous acquisition of some might facilitate the... | |
 | Asa Don Dickinson - Biography - 1916 - 230 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... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - American prose literature - 1916 - 760 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...of 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... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter - 1916 - 798 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...of 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... | |
 | Enoch Burton Gowin - Business - 1919 - 552 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. . . . "I made a little book, in which I allotted a page for... | |
 | Columbia University. Department of Philosophy - Philosophy - 1925 - 442 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 have gone through the thirteen. And, as the previous acquisition of some might facilitate the acquisition... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - Literature - 1926 - 924 pages
...I judged it would be well not to distract my attention by attempting the whole at oncej 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... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - English poetry - 1926 - 926 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} an-d, 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... | |
 | Philip Guedalla - United States - 1926 - 352 pages
..."judg'd it would be well not to distract 227 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." He even evolved a system of moral book-keeping by double entry, a sort of spiritual audit, which enabled... | |
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