| Aphorisms and apothegms - 1803 - 228 pages
...fruits : the sentiments become generous ; the carriage endearing ; and the life honorable and useful. Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind. To breathe th' enliv'ning spirit, and to fix The gen'rous purpose in the... | |
| Philip Doddridge - Theology - 1803 - 666 pages
...plantations, you are watering also yourselves^ ; and from these • Pror. iii. 17. f PsaL xix. 11. \ Delightful task ! To rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, — and plant The generous purpose in the glowing breast. THOMPSON'S SPUING,... | |
| James Thomson - 1803 - 186 pages
...the mother's hloom. Then infant reason grows apace, and calls For the kind hand of an assiduous care. Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To hreathe the enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the... | |
| Henry Hunter - 1803 - 286 pages
...Then infant reafon grows apace, and calls For the kind hand of an alfiduous care. Delightful taflc 1 to rear the tender thought. To teach the young idea how to (hoot, To peur the frelh inltruAion o'er the mind. To breathe th' enlivening fpirit, and to fix The... | |
| James Thomson - 1803 - 330 pages
...Then infant reafon grows apace, and calls For the kind hand of an alfiduous care. Delightful tafk j to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to fhoot, To pour the frefh inftruction o'er the mind, To breathe th' enlivening fpirit, and to fix The... | |
| Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1804 - 692 pages
...it from ruin, he may yet mend the morals of a private citizen, and can at least engage in the more Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, And fix the generous purpose in the glowing breast. Indeed it will b« strange... | |
| William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...bloom. Then infant Reason grows apace , an! calls For tho kind hand of an assiduous cure, Deli;jitlul task ! to rear the tender Thought, To teach the young Idea how to shoot. To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe enlivening spirit, and to lix The generous purpose in the glowing... | |
| E. Tomkins - 1804 - 416 pages
...confidence : for nought hut love Can answer love, and render hliss secure. • I '...•:. uclignttul task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To hteathe tV enlivening spirit, and to fii The^nerous purpose in the glowing... | |
| David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1804 - 694 pages
...may yet mend the morals of a private citizen, and can at least engage in the more Delightful task f to rear the tender thought; To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, And fix the generous purpose in the glowing breast. Indeed it will be strange... | |
| James Thomson, John Aikin - 1804 - 232 pages
...the mother's bloom. Then infant Reason grows apace, and calls For the kind hand of an assiduous care. Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, 1150 To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe th' enlivening spirit, and to fix... | |
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