fix attention

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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

But if the simplest truth sometimes requires a contest of ages before it is heard and understood, I could not hope to fix attention on a fact which might be taken as problematical.

From On the cattle plague: or, Contagious typhus in horned cattle. Its history, origin, description, and treatment by Bourguignon, Honor?

I desire to fix attention on the identification, in this country, of the Minister with the member of a House of Parliament.

From Prose Masterpieces from Modern Essayists by Froude, James Anthony

First let us fix attention on the purely mathematical question.

From The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 by Whitehead, Alfred North

By its distinct connection of the favor of the deity with conduct it has tended to fix attention on the latter and to strengthen the feeling that righteousness is the sovereign thing.

From Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV by Jastrow, Morris