 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
 | Nathaniel Parker Willis - Susquehanna River Valley - 1839 - 210 pages
...men by aH means endeavor to obtain good customs. Certainly custom is most perfect when it beginnclh in young years ; this we call Education, which is in effect but early custom." Bacon, BY THE AUTHOR OF PETER PARLEY'S TALES. NEW YORK: PUBLISHED BY SAMUEL COLMAN,... | |
 | Nathaniel Parker Willis - Susquehanna River Valley - 1839 - 192 pages
...read with Sir Philip Sydney's Defence of Poesy. But adieu, while I have room to write it. EDUCATION "Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by an means endeavor to obtain good customs. Certainly custom is most perfect when it beginneth in young... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 246 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... | |
 | Edward Stanley Bosanquet - 1840 - 436 pages
...when it beginneth in early years ; this we call education, which is, in effect, but an early custom. Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's...men by all means endeavour to obtain good customs. USURY. (Lord Bacon's Essays. Usury.) The usurer is the greatest Sabbath-breaker, because his plough... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - Frontier and pioneer life - 1840 - 354 pages
...Indians lay themselves quietly upon a stack of wood, and so sacrifice themselves by fire. * * » » * Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs. BACON. DIFFICULTIES began to melt away like frosty rime after this.... | |
 | Civilization - 1851 - 428 pages
...of beauty, and on acquaintance with the true principles of art. " Since custom," says Lord Bacon, " is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavour to obtain good customs." The periodical publication of such a work as M. Le Bouteiller's is surely good, and were the example... | |
 | Alonzo Potter - Education - 1842 - 586 pages
...agent, which can " turn the minds of children as easily this way or that, as water itself,"* and before it beginneth in young years ; this we call education,...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... | |
 | Alonzo Potter - Education - 1842 - 586 pages
...agent, which can " turn the minds of children as easily this way or that, as water itself,"* and before it beginneth in young years ; this we call education, which is, in efect, but an early custom. So we see in languages, the tongue is more pliant to all expressions and... | |
 | Theology - 1845 - 630 pages
...CHARACTERISTIC NOTICES. Thought* on Habit and Discipline. Royal 18mo, pp. 803. London : Hamilton and Adams. " SINCE custom is the principal magistrate of man's...life, let men by all means endeavour to obtain good cuatoms." So said Lord Bacon, and what man in his senses will gainsay the philosopher? The Author of... | |
 | Basil Montagu, Hannah Mary Rathbone - English literature - 1845 - 242 pages
...times, to acquire knowledge ; or an inability to acquire particular sorts of knowledge. He says, " 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... | |
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