 | 1838 - 286 pàgines
...fast as they can. Here are some verses, which I think you will like to learn. XXXI. INDUSTRY. How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From ev'ry op'ning flower I How skilfully she builds her cell, How neat she spreads her wax ; II And labours... | |
 | John Scott (of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.) - 1839 - 84 pàgines
...in vain, and learn to curse, and learn to swear. Compare with SONG XX, pages 22 and 23» 1, How doth the little busy bee improve each shining hour, and gather honey all the day from every op'ning flow'r. 2, How skilfully she builds her cell! how neat she spreads the wax! and labours hard to store... | |
 | Catharine Maria Sedgwick - 1839 - 188 pàgines
...affection and Christian love, — the bonds of unity and peace. I CHAPTER X. A PEEP INTO THE HIVE. How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower. watt. MANY persons who act from generous impulses, are soon checked and disheartened... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1839 - 204 pàgines
...would not work, neither slmild he eat. — 2 Thessalonians, iii. 8, 9, 10. How doth the little busy beo Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower ! In works of labour and of skill, I would be busy too ; For Satan finds some mischief... | |
 | 1840 - 188 pàgines
...know that; I thought it was bold ? I mil not fight with any one again. Against Idleness. . i. How doth the little busy bee, Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From fcvcry opening flower! «. Hotv skilfully she builds her cell! How neat she spreads the wax! And labours... | |
 | 1840 - 122 pàgines
...creatures, making the most of a sunshiny day ! They remind me of your pretty hymn : — " How doth the little busy bee Improve each, shining hour, And gather honey all the day From ev'ry opening flower. How skilfully she builds her cell, How neat she spreads her wax, And labours... | |
 | William Charles Cotton - 1842 - 434 pàgines
...Ht fnntr in stoeetnesse. ECCLESIASTICUS xi. 3. Translation, at. 1603. PRELUDE OF MOTTOES. How doth the little busy Bee Improve each shining hour ! And gather honey all the day From every opening flower ! How skilfully she builds her cell ! How neat she spreads the wax 1 And labours hard... | |
 | Juvenile miscellany - 1842 - 368 pàgines
...We must leave Sir Gerold until this evening. BEES, AND THE INTERNAL STRUCTURE OF A HIVE. " How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day, From every opening flower." " MY dear Mary," said Mrs. Graham to her little daughter, who, instead of learning... | |
 | 1856 - 1026 pàgines
...the bees in one of my little books, and I have been getting off those pretty verses — ' How doth the little busy bee improve each shining hour. And gather honey all the day from every opening flower ;' and I thought I should like to see the little creatures at work at their hives when... | |
 | 1853 - 892 pàgines
...a bee." Most of us have had this saying quoted to us., and learnt the hymn beginning— " How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From ev'ry opening flower I" But why say " as busy as a bee ?" We have seen how hard caterpillars work,... | |
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How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower... 
