- Full Text
- ‘Tis education forms the tender mind
Just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclin’d
- Listed on Page Number
- 267
- Sampler Worked By
- Hannah Janney
- Date of Sampler
- 1785
- Place Sampler Made
- possibly Loudon County, VA (Hannah Janney was the mother of Johns Hopkins, philanthropist. She was born in Loudon County, VA.)
- Sampler Listed on Page
- 55
- Author/Publication/Country/Date
- Pope, Alexander. Pope's Epistles to Several Persons /AKA Moral Essays (1732). Epistle 1- Lines 149-150
- Notes
- /www.quotery.com/quotes/tis-education-forms-common-mind
Original verse: 'Tis education forms the common mind,
Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.’
Other uses of the verse:
Polly Warren, 1798 Northborough MA, p 84;
Peggy Bartlett, 1801 Haverhill, Essex Co, MA, p.126;
Catharine Willsey Van Cleve Boyd, 1829, Hackensack NJ p. 130;
Mary S. Cleveland, 1823, n.p. p.139;
Mary M Dagget, 1813, Holmes Hole MA p.146;
Cornelia Fuller, 1809 NY, NY, p 159;
Rachel B. Gibbs, 1812, p. 161;
Persis Hutchins, 1814 Bath, NH p.178;
Lucy E. Nicholl, 1826 Salem, MA, p.201;
Mary A. Randall, 1818 Smithfield (n.p.) p.212;
Reed, Eliza, n.d., n.p. p 213);
Sabra B. Watson, 1821 , Barrington RI. p 238.