Date: 1786
The infant mind may (and should) be fed with "proper fare"
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Date: 1786
"Like caterpillars dangling under trees / By slender threads, and swinging in the breeze, / Which filthily bewray and sore disgrace / The boughs in which are bred the unseemly race, / While every worm industriously weaves / And winds his web about the rivell'd leaves; / So numerous are the follie...
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Date: 1786
The growing mind needs better nourishment than "conjugated verbs" and "nouns declined"
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Date: 1786
The soul controls "the state, the splendour and the throne, / An intellectual kingdom, all her own"
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Date: 1786
One may steal "The gem of truth from his unguarded soul"
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Date: 1786
"The stamp of artless piety impress'd / By kind tuition on his yielding breast"
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Date: 1786
Vile example may be stamped on the breast
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Date: 1786
"Dismiss their cares when they dismiss their flock, / Machines themselves, and govern'd by a clock."
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Date: 1788
"Strong Genius, from whose forge of thought / Forms rise, to quick perfection wrought"
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Date: 1788
"Well-tutor'd Learning, from his books / Dismiss'd with grave, not haughty looks, / Their order on his shelves exact, / Not more harmonious or compact / Than that, to which he keeps confined / The various treasures of his mind."
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