 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
 | Francis Bacon - 1909 - 360 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 perfect...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 - 1910 - 462 pages
...penance, that will sit a whole night in a vessel of water, till they be engaged with hard ice. . . . Therefore, since custom is the principal magistrate...by all means, endeavour to obtain good customs."— Essay 39. 17. fathers, Bk. 1, p. 45, 1. 24. 18. the wine of daemons, The expression here quoted is... | |
 | Jeremiah Whipple Jenks - 1910 - 168 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."... | |
 | Annie Callander Milligan - 1912 - 164 pages
...the common mind, Just as the twig is bent, the tree s inclined." WHEN we remember that Bacon says, " Custom is most perfect when it beginneth in young...Education, which is, in effect, but an early custom," we are impressed with the fact that the proper education of youth is of the highest importance, both... | |
 | Jeremiah Whipple Jenks - 1913 - 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."... | |
 | George Washington Andrew Luckey - 1916 - 208 pages
...nature; beyond this he neither knows anything nor can he do anything." — Novum Organum. "Certain custom is most perfect when it beginneth in young...education, which is, in effect, but an early custom." — Essay on Education. "Idols of the Tribe, which have their foundation in human nature itself; Idols... | |
 | New York (State). Legislature - 1919 - 1178 pages
...am willing to admit that CUSTOM is really the most important part of education. Lord Bacon says, " Certainly custom is most perfect when it beginneth...education which is in effect but an early custom." Yet even custom itself if carefully considered is only a part of memory, or rather it is involuntary... | |
 | Gaston Sortais - 1920 - 620 pages
...another man's than of his own. (Essaya, XXXIV, Sp. VI, 462. — Sermonea, XXXIV, B. III, 320-321). 3. Certainly custom is most perfect when it beginneth in young years : this we call éducation, which is, in effect, but an earlv custom (Essaya, XXXIX, Sp. VI, 471. — Sermones, XXXVII,... | |
 | Sayaji Rao Gaekwar III (Maharaja of Baroda) - 1928 - 538 pages
...and every action — these are the moral habits which wisdom implies. And on habit let us hear Bacon: "Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's...is most perfect when it beginneth in young years". Your education should have formed in your young years those perfect customs leading in after-life to... | |
 | Sir Herbert William Richmond - 1928 - 384 pages
...minds no longer supple. New processes of thought, new customs, do not come easily at that stage. ' Certainly custom is most perfect when it beginneth...education; which is in effect, but an early custom. . . . For it is true that late learners cannot so well take the ply ; except it be in some minds that... | |
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