 Therefore, since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavour to obtain good customs. Certainly custom is most perfect when it beginneth in young years : this we call education, which is in effect but an early custom.  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 3651905Full view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 214 pages
...be engaged with hard ice. Many examples may be put of the force of custom, both upon mind and body : therefore, since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all fheans endeavour to obtain good customs. Certainly, custom is most perfect when it beginneth in young... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1820 - 539 pages
...be engaged with hard ice. Many examples may be put of the force of custom, both upon mind and body: therefore, since custom is th~e principal magistrate...effect, but an early custom. So we see, in languages the tone is more pliant to all expressions and sounds, the joints are more supple to all feats of activity... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 416 pages
...be engaged with hard ice. Many examples may be put of the force of custom, both upon mind and body : therefore, since custom is the principal magistrate...effect, but an early custom. So we see, in languages the tone is more pliant to all expressions and sounds, the joints are more supple to all feats of activity... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1822 - 208 pages
...be engaged with hard ice. Many examples may be put of the force of custom, both upon mind and body : therefore, since custom is the principal magistrate...customs. Certainly, custom is most perfect when it begin neth in young years : this we call education, which is, in effect, but an early custom. So we... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English literature - 1824 - 598 pages
...be engaged with hard ice. Many examples may be put of the force of custom, both upon mind and body. Therefore since custom is the principal magistrate...an early custom. So we see in languages, the tongue ismorepliantto all expressions andsounds, the joints are more supple to all feats of activity and motions,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English prose literature - 1825 - 524 pages
...be engaged with hard ice. Many examples may be put of the force of custom, both upon mind and body: therefore, since custom is the principal magistrate...So we see, in languages the tongue is more pliant to all expressions and sounds, the joints are more supple to all feats of activity and motions in youth,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825
...be engaged with hard ice. Many examples may be put of the force of custom, both upon mind and body : therefore, since custom is the principal magistrate...So we see, in languages the tongue is more pliant to all expressions and sounds, the joints are more supple to all feats of activity and motions in youth,... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825
...be engaged with hard ice. Many examples may be put of the force of custom, both upon mind and body : therefore, since custom is the principal magistrate...So we see, in languages the tongue is more pliant to all expressions and sounds, the joints are more supple to all feats of activity and motions in youth,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...view, and waiting patiently for every idea as it presented itself, without wandering or hurrying. (a) Certainly custom is most perfect when it beginneth...So we see in languages, the tongue is more pliant to all expressions and sounds ; the joints are more supple to all feats of activity and motions in... | |
 | Child development - 1825 - 90 pages
...to look for their rule of conduct in the Scriptures : they will there learn that many things which * Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs. Certainly, custom, is most perfect when it beginneth in young years... | |
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