 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 pages
...diamond blaze, We prize the stronger effort of his power, And justly set the gem above the flower. '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... | |
 | American Institute of the City of New York - 1849 - 446 pages
...and place many of their blessings to the score of the widely disseminated intelligence in our land. " 'Tis Education forms the common mind ; Just as the twig is bent the tree 's inclined." It may be pleasing to this audience to be informed that/ree tickets have been distributed... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 488 pages
...diamond blaze, We prize the stronger effort of his power, Arid justly set the gem above the flower. '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... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 492 pages
...diamond blaze, We prize the stronger effort of his power, And justly set the gem above the flower. '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... | |
 | 318 pages
...must be taught as if you taught them not,. And things unk no wn proposed as things forgot. EDUCATION. 'Tis education forms the common mind ; Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined'. HABITS. Hl customs by degrees to hnbits rise ; 111 habits soon become exalted vice.... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...Wise, if a minister; but if a king, More wise, more just, more learn'd, more every thing. Teaching. 'Tis education forms the common mind ; Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclin'd, Boasting. ' Boastful and rough, your first son is a squire; Smooth. The next a tradesman,... | |
 | Edward Farr - 1850 - 382 pages
...which at a later period sullied his pupil's fame : an apt illustration of the poet's sentiment, that, 'Tis education forms the common mind ; Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined. POPE. The seeds of error which Lysimachus sowed in the heart of Alexander would probably... | |
 | Edwin Lee - 1851 - 460 pages
...devolved, have been so little mindful of the paramount importance of the object of their mission.* "'Tis education forms the common mind, Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined." « As a bright exception to the generality of public schools, Rugby may be cited... | |
 | New York (State). Legislature. Assembly - 1851 - 1064 pages
...pursuits. They have produced results of rare and curious diversity, and marked the great truth that " "I'is education forms the common mind, Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined." Unjust legislation, with continued taxation and oppression by the parent country,... | |
 | Stephen Burroughs - 1852 - 406 pages
...laws to which they are appointed. But I return from this digression to the narrative. CHAPTER II. " Tis education forms the common mind, Just as the twig is bent, the tree 's iuclinM." BEING possessed with the most romantic ideas of military prowess, I lonsed for an... | |
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Tis education forms the common mind ; Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined. 
