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 - 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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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