| Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 Seiten
...in crape is twice a saint in Uwn ; A judge is just, a chancellor jueter still ; A gown-man learn'd ; Where Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness join. True ease learn'd, more just, more everything. Court-virtues bear, like gems, the highest rate, Horn where Heaven's... | |
| Enoch Cobb Wines - 1839 - 326 Seiten
...which forms the heading of this section. This, however, is of the utmost moment in moral education. " 'Tis education forms the common mind, Just as the twig is bent, the tree 'a inclined." The earliest developements, whether of good or evil, must be observed and studied,... | |
| John Minter Morgan - 1839 - 228 Seiten
...refers to education in its most comprehensive sense and just definition in the following lines : — " 'Tis education forms the common mind ; Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined. Boastful and rough, your first son is a squire ; The next a tradesman, meek, and much... | |
| Mary Ashdowne - 1839 - 328 Seiten
...where parents should be so absolutely correct, as in a systematic course of educating their children. " 'Tis education forms the common mind ; Just as the twig is bent the tree 'a inclined." It is here that the most part profess to inculcate morality and virtue in their... | |
| Benjamin Parsons (of Pensacola.) - 1840 - 408 Seiten
...instructors wish them to go, expecting that when they are old they will not depart therefrom ; for " T is education forms the common mind, Just as the twig is bent, the tree 's inclined." And when they have advanced to manhood, their pious Orthodox teachers still treat... | |
| John Aikin - 1841 - 840 Seiten
...crape is twice a saint in lawn ; A judge is just, a chancellor juster still ; A gownman learn 'd ; se sailing from Bengala, or the isles Of Témate and Tidore, whence merchants learn'd, more just, more every thing. Court-virtues bear, like gems, the highest rate. Born where Heaven's... | |
| 1841 - 404 Seiten
...currently and unquestioned among all nations-and throughout all ages. Those much admired lines of Pope, " 'Tis education forms the common mind, Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined," may be considered as a poetical paraphrase of the inspired maxim. Education exerts... | |
| John Hampson (schoolmaster.) - 1841 - 224 Seiten
...occasion ; but more reasonable thank you who are the givers of the benefit, ording to one of our books, " "Tis education forms the common mind ; Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.'' 1 * Thanks then to you for giving me the proper bent, and for bestowing such care... | |
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