 | Edward Butt - 1852 - 680 페이지
...receive and swallow implicitly whatever is offered them. THE TEACHER'S TRIALS AND ENCOURAGEMENTS. " Delightful task to rear the tender thought, And teach the young idea how to shoot." IT is hardly possible to recur to this poetic effusion of the author of the " Seasons," without exciting,... | |
 | 1852 - 560 페이지
...and faculties of the mind in their most plastic and ductile state. It is preeminently her office— " to rear the tender thought, And teach the young idea how to shoot." "Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined," said Pope; but, who bends the twig ? who has the training... | |
 | John Angell James - 1853 - 468 페이지
...etiquette or luxurious indolence has not taken what the poet so pleasingly characterizes as the— ,' Delightful task to rear the tender thought, And teach the young idea how to shoot." Mothers, then, should be thoroughly acquainted vrith the work that is allotted to them. I speak not... | |
 | James Hodson - 1853 - 64 페이지
...full establishment of the Lord's New Church; but it is our duty to train them up in the right way—" to rear the tender thought, and teach the young idea how to shoot;" that so " our sons may be as plantations grown up in their youth, and our daughters as corners cut... | |
 | 1855 - 972 페이지
...it " is lawful to do good on the Sabbath day," Sabbath - school teachers must be prepared not only to rear the tender thought, and teach the young idea how to shoot, but to impart literary instruction to their pupils. Many so engaged are ill-qualified in this respect,... | |
 | John Mason Peck - 1855 - 312 페이지
...disciple of Father Badin, the Roman Catholic missionary at Bardstown, and sent to Lincoln county — " To rear the tender thought, And teach the young idea How to shoot" in the direction of " Holy Mother Church." In this particular item his services were gratuitous ; but... | |
 | James Boswell - 1858 - 482 페이지
...to very high respect from the community, as Johnson himself often maintained. Yet I am of opinion, that the greatest abilities are not only not required...consider that this delight is perceptible only by " a minjl *• at ease," a mind at once calm and clear ; but that a mind gloomy and impetuous, like that... | |
 | 1858 - 628 페이지
...the Corries would make a Christian doubt ; she, by the artless simplicity of her instructions, would 'rear the tender thought, And teach the young idea how to shoot ;' till the principle of grace grows up laden with the fruits of righteousness ; they, by their vanity... | |
 | Timothy East - 1858 - 628 페이지
...the Comes would make a Christian doubt; she, by the artless simplicity of her instructions, would ' rear the tender thought, And teach the young idea how to shoot;' till the principle of grace grows up laden with the fruits of righteousness ; they, by their vanity... | |
 | David Perkins Page - 1859 - 376 페이지
...can most cordially respond to the poet, in that beautiful sentiment too seldom fully realized:— " Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, And teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe the enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous... | |
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... and I have ever thought that those who devote themselves to this employment, and do their duty with diligence and success, are entitled to very high respect from the community, as Johnson himself often maintained. 
