 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 3611905Full view - About this book
 | 1903 - 422 pages
...course of nature ; beyond this he neither knows anything nor can he do anything." Novum Organum. " Certainly custom is most perfect when it beginneth...education, which is, in effect, but an early custom." Essay on Education. LOYOLA AND THE SCHOOLS OF THE JESUITS. Bacon, LW Forgery in Polemics. Secret Instructions... | |
 | Luigi Cornaro - 1903 - 224 pages
...extreme is no vice. Many examples may be put of the force of custom, both upon mind and [123] 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 - 1905 - 410 pages
...Many examples may be put of the force of custom, both upon mind and body. Therefore, since custom 15 is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men...effect, but an early custom. So we see, in languages 20 the tongue is more pliant to all expressions and sounds, the joints are more supple to all feats... | |
 | Francis Bacon, William Henry Oliphant Smeaton - 1907 - 248 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... | |
 | Herman Harrell Horne - 1906 - 460 pages
...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...education, which is, in effect, but an early custom." l Second, the greatness of education consists in the TheGreat... I 1 • r ness °f fact that it captures... | |
 | Herman Harrell Horne - 1906 - 460 pages
...pithiness has expressed it: "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... | |
 | James Colville - 1907 - 122 pages
...stage the helplessness of the child is the secret of its extreme docility. "Custom," as Bacon says, "is most perfect when it beginneth in young years...education, which is in effect but an early custom." Later on, when character begins to show, it will be otherwise. " Youth has an inherent contempt for... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1908 - 412 pages
...another man." Judges xvi. 7. and body. Therefore, since custom is the principal magistrate of man's lifej let men by all means endeavour to obtain good customs....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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1908 - 428 pages
...'Engaged with. Held in. and body./1 Therefore, since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life^Qet men by all means endeavour to obtain good customs....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... | |
 | Jeremiah Whipple Jenks - 1908 - 152 pages
...conventional. But the wary Heaven takes care that we shall not be, if there is anything good in you." EMERSON. "Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs." BACON. "Custom is most perfect when it beginneth in young years."... | |
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