 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 - Side 3651905Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Francis Bacon - 1910 - 462 sider
...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 sider
...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 sider
...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 - 148 sider
...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 sider
...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
...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 sider
...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,... | |
 | 1909 - 378 sider
...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:... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1990 - 280 sider
...is. The 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 endeavour to obtain good customs.—Bacon' DIFFICULTIES began to melt away like frosty rime after this. Some were removed, but... | |
 | Rachel Claire Morris, Rachel Morris, Luke J. Clements - 1999 - 184 sider
...integration can be further promoted by countryside skills training.1-^9 "[S]ince custom is the principle magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavour...we call education, which is in effect but an early custom."140 Customal skills displace capital relations, consequently formal educational institutions... | |
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