 And labours hard to store it well With the sweet food she makes. In works of labour or of skill I would be busy too: For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do. In books, or work, or healthful play Let my first years be past, That I may...  My second (-fourth) book - Pàgina 6per Scottish school-book assoc - 1870Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1856 - 348 pàgines
...far happier for employment ; and it saves us from much temptation. What is it about idle hands ?" " In works of labour or of skill I would be busy too ; For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do." Louis repeated the verse promptly ; for he had learned the whole hymn at Sunday-school.... | |
 | Tales - 1849 - 300 pàgines
...cell ! How neat she spreads the wax ! And labours hard to store it well With the sweet food she makes. In works of labour, or of skill, I would be busy too ; For Satan finds some mischief btill For idle hands to do. In books, or work, or healthful play, Let my first years be past ; That... | |
 | 1849 - 614 pàgines
...improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day from every opening flower ! In works of labor, or of skill, I would be busy too, For Satan finds some mischief still for idje hands to do." See to it, then, that you have something to do, that you do it, and that you do... | |
 | 1850 - 156 pàgines
...she makes. In works of labor, or of skill, I would be busy too ; For there is always something ill For idle hands to do. In books, or work, or healthful...may give for every day, Some good account at last. BEING KIND AND AFFECTIONATE. The God of heaven is pleased to see A little family agree ; And will not... | |
 | 1850 - 642 pàgines
...hymn of Dr. Watts, ior little children, is truly beautiful, and is just as true as it is beautiful : " In works of labour or of skill, I would be busy too, For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do." JESUS OBEYED HIS MOTHER. IN the early life of the Saviour, there is nothing that strikes... | |
 | 1850 - 408 pàgines
...little children, is truly beautiful, and is just as true as it is beautiful : " In works of labor, or of skill, I would be busy too, For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do." HJL PUNCTUALITY. — It is said of Melancthon, that when he made an appointment, he expected... | |
 | Garland - 1850 - 152 pàgines
...How skilfully she builds her cell ! How neat she spreads her wax ! And labours hard to store it well In works of labour or of skill, I would be busy too ; ,,„ For idle hands will always find Some mischief still to do. In books, or work, or healthful play, Let my... | |
 | 1861 - 378 pàgines
...the last verse of the " Busy Bee :"— ' - In books and work and healthful play Let my first yean |>e past ; That I may give for every day Some good account at last ;" and we bestowed as much attention upon the settling of the " healthful play" as upon either of the... | |
 | Mary O. Ward - 1852 - 236 pàgines
...spreads the wax, And labors hard to store it well "With the sweet food she makes. In works of labor or of skill, I would be busy too ; For Satan finds some mischief still, For idle hands to do. Wat GENERAL WASHINGTON. When General Washington was young, About as big as I, He never... | |
 | Lyman Cobb - 1852 - 156 pàgines
...labor or of skill, I would be busy too, There always is some mischief still For idle hands to do. 4. In books, or work, or healthful play, Let my first years be passed, That I may give, for every day, A good account at last. doESTiONS. — What does the busy bee... | |
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