| Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 halaman
...di'mond blaze, we prize the stronger effort of his pow'r, and justly set the gem above the flow'r. 'T is education forms the common mind ; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclin'd. 150 Boastful and rough, your first son is a 'squire, the next a tradesman, meek, and... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1810 - 262 halaman
...CHAPTER I. SELECT SENTENCES AND PARAGRAPHS. SECTION I. rpj SHORT AND EASY SENTENCES. Education. ''IS education forms the common mind ; Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclin'd. Candour With pleasure let us own our errors past ; And make each day a critic on the... | |
| Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 halaman
...di'mond blaze, we prize the stronger effort of his pow'r, and justly set the gem above the flow'r. 'T is education forms the common mind ; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclin'd. Boastful and rough, your first son is a 'squire, the next a tradesman, meek, and much... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 halaman
...di'mond blaze, We prize the stronger effort of his pow'r, And justly set the gem above the flow'r. 'Tis education forms the common mind, Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclin'd. 15a Boastful and rough, your first son is a 'squire ; The next a tradesman, meek,... | |
| Thomas Condie - 1813 - 262 halaman
...wish, with your permission, to introduce occasionally, some short essays on education and manners. ' 'Tis education forms the common mind Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclin'd." I shall begin with the education of Females, as I conceive that to be of the first... | |
| William Scott - 1814 - 424 halaman
...Wise, if a minister ; but, if a king, More wise, more learn'd, more just, more every thing. fops. 18. Tis education forms the common mind ; Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclin'd. Boastful and rough, your first son is a squire ; The next a tradesman, meek, and much... | |
| Noah Webster - 1814 - 240 halaman
...you will ; Wise if a minister ; but if a king, More wise, more just, more learn'd, more every thing. 'Tis education forms the common mind ; . Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclin'd. . Boastful and rough, your first son is a squire ; The next a tradesman meek and much... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1815 - 276 halaman
...POETRY. CHAPTER I. SELECT SENTENCES AND PARAGRAPHS. SECTION I. HHORT AND EASY SENTENCES. Education. TIS education forms the common mind ; Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclin'4. Candour. "With pleasure let us own our errors pastj And make each day a critic on... | |
| Alexander Balfour, Campbell (fict. name.) - 1819 - 972 halaman
...censure of any power, civil or ecclesiastical. It was one of Mr Belfield's favourite maxims, that " Education forms the common mind ; Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined ;" and, in the present instance, it was most happily illustrated ; for he had exercised a judicious caution... | |
| William Scott - 1819 - 366 halaman
...will : Wise, if a minister ; but, if a king, More wise, more Itarn'd, more just, more every thing. 18. 'Tis education forms the common mind ; Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclin'd. Boastful and rough, your first son is a squire; The next a tradesman, meek, and much... | |
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