 Tis granted, and no plainer truth appears, Our most important are our earliest years ; The mind, impressible and soft, with ease Imbibes and copies what she hears and sees, And through life's labyrinth holds fast the clue, That education gives her, false...  Miscellanies Selected from the Public Journals - Page 102by Joseph Tinker Buckingham - 1824Full view - About this book
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1803 - 310 pages
...-mankind Of the plague spread by bundles left behind. 'Tis granted,. and no plainer'truth appears, Our most important are our earliest years ; The mind,...the clue That education gives her, false or true. Plants rais'd with tenderness are seldom strong; Man's coltish disposition asks the thong ; And, without... | |
 | John Corry - London (England) - 1804 - 230 pages
...THE SIGHT, BUT MEKIT WINS THX SOUL ! i FEMALE EDUCATION. Mi. granted, and no plainer truth appears, Our most important are our earliest years : The mind,...sees : And through life's labyrinth holds fast the cluo That education gives her, false or true. Cownii. PARADOXICAL as it may appear, we are at this... | |
 | William Cowper - 1806 - 310 pages
...cure mankind Of the.plague spread by bundles left behind. Tis granted, and no plainer truth appears, Our most important are our earliest years; The mind, impressible and soft, with ease Itnbibes.-and copies what she hears and sees, And through life's labyrinth holds• fast the clue,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1806 - 316 pages
...cure mankind Of the plague spread by bundles left behind. Tis granted, and no plainer truth appears, Our most important are our earliest years ; The mind, impressible and soft, with ease Imhibes and copies what she hears and sees, And through life's labyrinth holds fast the slue, That... | |
 | William Cowper - 1808 - 330 pages
...mankind Of the plague spread by bundles left behind. 'Tis granted, and no plainer truth appears, . Our most important are our earliest years ; The mind,...sees, And, through life's labyrinth holds fast the eke .That education gives her, false or true. ants rais'd with tenderness are seldom strong ; Man's... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1808 - 360 pages
...cure mankind Of the plague spread by bundles left behind. 'Tis granted, and no plainer truth appears, Our most important are our earliest years ; The Mind,...sees, And through life's labyrinth holds fast the clew, That Education gives her, false or true. Plants rais'd with tenderness are seldom strong ; Man's... | |
 | John Corry - London (England) - 1809 - 236 pages
...EDUCATION. 'Tis granted, and no plainer truth appear:, Our most important are onr earliest j pars : The mind, impressible and soft, with ease Imbibes, and copies what she hears and sf es : And through life's labyrinth holds fast the cine That education gives her, false or true. COWPEB.... | |
 | William Cowper - 1810 - 422 pages
...cure mankind Of the plague spread by bundles left behind. Tis granted, and no plainer truth appears, Our most important are our earliest years; The Mind,...sees, And through life's labyrinth holds fast the clew, That Education gives her, false or true. Plants rais'd with tenderness are seldom strong ; Man's... | |
 | William Cowper - 1810 - 390 pages
...cure mankind Of the plague spread by bundles left behind. Tis granted, and no plainer truth appears, Our most important are our earliest years; The Mind, impressible and soft, with ease Imbibes and eopies what she hears and sees, And through life's labyrinth holds fast the clew, That Education gives... | |
 | Roger Lamb - Burgoyne's Invasion, 1777 - 1811 - 310 pages
...in practice, this in its turn, of course' I abandoned. " 'Tis granted, and no plainer truth appears, Our most important are our earliest years ; The mind...the clue That education gives her, false or true. % Plants raised with tenderness are seldom strong ; Man's coltish disposition asks the thong ; And,... | |
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