 | New Church gen. confer - 1853 - 500 pages
...harden like the strata of the earth, and naught but the most violent convulsions can shake them. " Scratch the green rind of a sapling, or wantonly twist...the soil, The scarred and crooked oak will tell of thee for centuries to come : Even so may'st thou guide the mind to good, or lead it to the marrings... | |
 | Massachusetts. Board of Education - Education - 1839 - 698 pages
...incentive which will lead that boy to a life of crime. How well has it been said, by a recent writer, " Scratch the green rind of a sapling, or wantonly twist...the soil, The scarred, and crooked oak will tell of thee, for centuries to come !" and 'it is equally true, that a single bad impression, imprinted upon... | |
 | Martin Farquhar Tupper - Conduct of life - 1840 - 126 pages
...lacking not the bitter. For character groweth day by day, and all things aid it in unfolding ; and the bent unto good or evil may be given in the hours of...the soil, the scarred and crooked oak will tell of thee for centuries to come: even so mayst thou guide the mind to good, or lead it to the marrings of... | |
 | 1844 - 398 pages
...laeking not the bitter. For eharaeter groweth day by day, and all things aid it in unfolding; And the bent unto good or evil may be given in the hours of infaney. Serateh the green rind of a sapling, or wantonly twist it in the soil, The searred and erooked... | |
 | Lydia Maria Child - New York (N.Y.) - 1845 - 320 pages
...And the bent unto good or evil may be given in the hours of infancy. Scratch the green rind of the sapling, or wantonly twist it in the soil, The scarred and crooked oak will tell of thee for centuries to come." If ever the evil days of civil strife come upon us, we shall find that... | |
 | Lydia Maria Child - New York (N.Y.) - 1845 - 520 pages
...And the hent unto good or evil mny he given in the hoars of infancy. Scratch the green rind of the sapling, or wantonly twist it in the soil, The scarred and crooked onk will tell of thee for centuries to come." If ever the evil days of civil strife come upon us, we... | |
 | Martin Farquhar Tupper - Proverbs - 1846 - 322 pages
...lacking not the bitter For character groweth day by day, and all things aid it in unfolding, And the bent unto good or evil may be given in the hours of...the soil, The scarred and crooked oak will tell of thee for centuries to come ; Even so mayst thou guide the mind to good, or lead it to the marrings... | |
 | Massachusetts. General Court. House - 1846 - 1194 pages
...incentive which will lead that boy to a life of crime. How well has it been said, by a recent writer, " Scratch the green rind of a sapling, or wantonly twist...the soil, The scarred, and crooked oak will tell of thee, for centuries to come !" and it is equally true, that a single bad impression, imprinted upon... | |
 | Almanacs, American - 1851 - 316 pages
...more we do, the more we can do ; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have." EARLY TEACHING. — Scratch the green rind of a sapling, or wantonly twist it in the soil, and a scarred or crooked oak will tell of the act for centuries to come. How forcibly does this figure... | |
 | Martin Farquhar Tupper - Blank verse, English - 1848 - 300 pages
...not the bitter. For character groweth day by day, and all things aid it in unfolding, love: And the bent unto good or evil may be given in the hours of...the soil, The scarred and crooked oak will tell of thee for centuries to come ; Even so mayst thou guide the mind to good, or lead it to the marrings... | |
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Scratch the green rind of a sapling, or wantonly twist it in the soil, the scarred and crooked oak will tell of thee for centuries to come... 
