 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
 | Henry Barnard - 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... | |
 | Rev. John Baillie - 1858 - 370 pages
...dealt with this man. • HAMBt'ECII. CHAPTEE I. " Custom is most perfect, when It begtnneth In yonng years: this we call education, which is, in effect, but an early custom."—LOUD BACON. Hamburgh—" The king of booksellers ' '—His cradle—An orphan—Boyish tastes—School—Lei... | |
 | John Joseph Halcombe - 1859 - 232 pages
...possibly afford, to even a small percentage of 2,000 men, opportunities " magnis et crebris exer* " Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's...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 (visct. St. Albans.) - 1859 - 176 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...endeavour to obtain good customs. Certainly custom is most perLct when it beginneth in young years : this we call education, which is, in effect, but an early... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1860 - 480 pages
...be engaged with hard ice. Many examples may be put of the force of custom,4 both upon mind and body. Therefore, since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeav1 The translation ht&prima rlassis sicarii; (murderers of the first class): which seems to me... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1861 - 630 pages
...nothing to be done, therefore, but to comply.' ' ' Certainly custom is most perfect when it begimuth in young years: this we call 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... | |
 | 1861 - 438 pages
...regard to adopting more considerate treatment toward such men as Mr. Mills. It was Lord Bacon who said, "Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs." The good custom is, when a pianist plays admirably and beautifully,... | |
 | 1862 - 488 pages
...; 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... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1862 - 638 pages
...; 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...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... | |
 | 1862 - 812 pages
...be corroborate by custom. 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 beginnet!] in young years... | |
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