 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 - English essays - 1856 - 406 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 means, endeavor to obtain good customs. Certainly, custom is most perfect when it beginneth in young years... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English literature - 1858 - 814 pages
...be engaged with hard ice. Many examples may be put of the force of custom4, 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... | |
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...co-operation ; which would be a most serious evil. There is nothing to be done, therefore, but to comply.' ' 'Certainly custom is most perfect when it beginneth...education, which is, in effect, but an early custom.' Education may be compared to the grafting of a tree. Every gardener knows that the younger the wilding-stock... | |
 | William Henry Smith - Catholics - 1857 - 190 pages
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 | John Baillie - 1857 - 380 pages
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 | William Henry Smith - Catholics - 1857 - 188 pages
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 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 790 pages
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...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 bcginneth in young years : this we call education, which is, in effect, but an early custom. So we... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1858 - 914 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 means endeavor to obtain good customs. Certainly, custom is most perfect when it bcginneth in young years... | |
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