...dignity of the teacher's office. Those n-ho have never tried it declaim with empty rhetoric about the "delightful task to rear the tender thought, and teach the young idea how to shoot." But I suspect that, with few exceptions, this is delightful only in theory. In practice I question...

...to very high respect from the community, as Johnson himself often maintained. Yet I am of opinion, « Thornson's beautiful remark, — 3 This project must have been formed before his marriage, for the...

...etiquette or luxurious indolence has not tnken what the poet so pleasingly characterizes as the — " Delightful task to rear the tender thought, And teach the young idea how to ahoot." Mothers, then, should be thoroughly acquainted with the work that is allotted to them. I speak...

...teaching, and resolved not to go forth into the world in the capacity of governess. I decided that to — rear the tender thought, And teach the young idea how to shoot," was not my mission. Still I was resolved not to stay at home much longer : the partial estrangement...

...were when compelled to inactivity by the regulations of society. To these ladies it is a more pleasing task to 'rear the tender thought, and teach the young idea how to shoot/ than it would bo to ' suckle fools and chronicle small beer/ for they are apt to take lagp's view of...

...community should be immediately initiated into such studies, he identified himself with those who strove " To rear the tender thought, And teach the young idea how to shoot." He took pains to teach his class effectually, and became, as one who was then a fellow-instructor says,...

...earnestness of purpose, devoted to their work, to whom it shall be no drudgery nor a grim joke, but a "Delightful task, to rear the tender thought, And teach the young idea how to shoot." [NOTE. — Three errors in the foregoing paper escaped notice until after the pages in which they occur...

...respond to the poet, m that beautiful sentiment too seldom fully realized : — " Delightful task I 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...

...entitled 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...less fit for it. While we acknowledge the justness of Thornton's beautiful remark, ' Delightful task 1 to rear the tender thought, And teach the young idea...

...entitled 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...for this office, but render a man less fit for it. Wbile we acknowledge the justness of Thomeon's beautiful remark, ' Delightful task I to rear the tender...