 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
 | James Brodrick - Christian saints - 1956 - 386 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. . . . Conceiving then that, agreeably to the advice of Pythagoras... | |
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