 | 1844 - 398 halaman
...with interest: A delight, but redolent of eare; honey-sweet, but laeking not the bitter. For eharaeter groweth day by day, and all things aid it in unfolding;...bent unto good or evil may be given in the hours of infaney. Serateh the green rind of a sapling, or wantonly twist it in the soil, The searred and erooked... | |
 | Lydia Maria Child - 1845 - 320 halaman
...easy to calculate the bad effect of these bitterly expressed prejudices on the education of the young. "For character groweth day by day, and all things...in the hours of infancy. Scratch the green rind of the sapling, or wantonly twist it in the soil, The scarred and crooked oak will tell of thee for centuries... | |
 | Lydia Maria Child - 1845 - 322 halaman
...these bitterly expressed prejudices on the education of the young. " For character groweth day by dny, and all things aid it in unfolding ; And the bent...in the hours of infancy. Scratch the green rind of the sapling, or wantonly twist it in the soil, The scarred and crooked oak will tell of thee for centuries... | |
 | 1851 - 316 halaman
...more we do, the more we can do ; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have." EARLY TEACHING. — Scratch the green rind of a sapling, or wantonly twist it in the soil, and a scarred or crooked oak will tell of the act for centuries to come. How forcibly does this figure... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1848 - 566 halaman
...In the morn and liquid dew of youth, contagious blastments are most immi* Tapper has these lines : " For character groweth day by day, and all things aid...infancy : Scratch the green rind of a sapling, or wanton ingly twist it in the soil, The scarred and crooked oak will toll of thee tor centuries to come.... | |
 | Home and colonial school society - 1848 - 412 halaman
...the cradle. Early habits cling to us through life ; for as the twig is bent, so the bow will grow. Scratch the green rind of a sapling, or wantonly twist it in the soil, the seared and crooked oak will tell of thee for centuries to come : even so the bent into good or evil... | |
 | Martin Farquhar Tupper - 1848 - 300 halaman
...rendered back with interest ; A delight, but redolent of care ; honey-sweet, but lacking not the bitter. For character groweth day by day, and all things aid it in unfolding, love: And the bent unto good or evil may be given in the hours of infancy : Scratch the green rind... | |
 | Lydia Maria Child - 1849 - 298 halaman
...LETTERS FROM NEW- YORK. £ 3 iH ft W S3 C " For character groweth day by day, and all things aid r* p. And the bent unto good or evil may be given in the he Scratch the green rind of the sapling, or wantonly twi The scarred and crooked oak will tell of... | |
 | 1850 - 682 halaman
...back «¡Hi interest ; A delight— but redolent of care : honey sweet, but lacking not tbe bitter ; For character groweth day by day, and all things aid It in unfolding ; And the bent unto pood or evil nuiy be given in tbe hours of infancy. Seratcb the green rind of» sapling, or wantonly... | |
 | Martin Farquhar Tupper - 1851 - 584 halaman
...rendered back with interest; A delight, but redolent of care ; honey-sweet, but lacking not the bitter. For character groweth day by day, and all things aid...it in unfolding, And the bent unto good or evil may he given in the hours of infancy : Scratch the green rind of a sapling, or wantonly twist it in the... | |
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Scratch the green rind of a sapling, or wantonly twist it in the soil, The scarred and crooked oak will tell of thee for centuries to come... 
