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" 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 329
1818
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The Compleated Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin: 1757-1790

Benjamin Franklin - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 258 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...
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The Beauties of Franklin: Consisting of Selections from His Works

Benjamin Franklin, Alfred Howard - 1834 - 206 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...
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New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 9

1818 - 642 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 the...
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac, and Other Papers

Benjamin Franklin - 189? - 332 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...
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The Cornhill Magazine

William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1925 - 784 pages
...' 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 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 would...
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New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 9

Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1818 - 604 pages
...well nut to distract my attention hy attempting (lie whole at once, hut to fix it on 'i/a of them ata time; and when I should be master 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 the...
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