Accustom

Accustom those of the Greek religion to such benevolence, teaching them that this has been our work from ancient times. ...

Paying Homage to the Emperor 2009

Accustom a people to believe that priests and clergy can forgive sins … and you will have sins in abundance.

Think Progress » Tom DeLay: Response to Katrina a “Phenomenal Accomplishment” 2005

Accustom a people to believe that priests and clergy can forgive sins … and you will have sins in abundance.

Think Progress » Religious Right ‘Too Busy to Comment’ on Pat Robertson, Quick to DeLay’s Defense 2005

Accustom a people to believe that priests and clergy can forgive sins … and you will have sins in abundance.

Think Progress » Help Improve ThinkProgress 2005

Accustom a people to believe that priests and clergy can forgive sins … and you will have sins in abundance.

Think Progress » The Right’s New Strategy: Anti-Alito = Anti-God 2005

Accustom a people to believe that priests and clergy can forgive sins … and you will have sins in abundance.

Think Progress » ElBaradei, Smeared By Administration, Wins Nobel Peace Prize 2005

Accustom the American people to the public sniping and bickering of generals, and generals will soon find that the respect on which they now count has evaporated.

Firedoglake » From the Elephant’s Mouth 2006

Accustom your eyes to a certain softness, of which they are very capable, and your face to smiles, which become it more than most faces I know.

Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005

Accustom thyself as much as possible on the occasion of anything being done by any person to inquire with thyself, For what object is this man doing this?

The Meditations 2004

‘Accustom your children (said he,) constantly to this; if a thing happened at one window, and they, when relating it, say that it happened at another, do not let it pass, but instantly check them; you do not know where deviation from truth will end.’

The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. 2004