fix attention

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Its mission is first to fix attention, and then to enlarge the circle of acquired knowledge.

From Sophisms of the Protectionists by White, Horace

Here was a subject fitted to fix attention upon any writer, and on the other hand, a writer brilliantly qualified to fix attention upon any subject.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 by Various

It was necessary to fix attention; and the mind can be captivated only by recollection, or by curiosity; by reviving natural sentiments, or impressing new appearances of things.

From Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 by Johnson, Samuel

But fix attention for a moment, not upon their appearance, but upon their possibilities, upon their relation to the future, and upon their place in evolution.

From Natural Law in the Spiritual World by Drummond, Henry

A twinge of pain at right infraorbital foramen, gradually increases; cannot fix attention on what I am reading.

From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Anshutz, Edward Pollock