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 - Pągina 6per Scottish school-book assoc - 1870Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| 1855 - 590 pągines
...Blind Bartimens sat by the wayside begging. Once more — In books,k or work,1 or healthful play,1o Let my first years be past, That I may give for every day A good account at last.'1 * 1 Tim. iv. 13. Till I come, gire attention to reading. 1 Prov. xiv. 23.... | |
| Charlotte Phillips - 1855 - 188 pągines
...cell, How neat she spreads her 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 ; Some evil work is present still ANON. In books, or work, or healthful play, Let my first years be... | |
| Collection - 1856 - 120 pągines
...! 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...play, Let my first years be past ; That I may give for ev'ry day, Some good account at last. WATTS. Excelsior. The shades of night were falling fast, As through... | |
| Henry Ward Beecher - 1856 - 506 pągines
...labor or of skill, I would be busy, too, For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do. 4. In books, or work, or healthful play, Let my first...may give for every day Some good account at last. WATTS. 1371, С.Л. 1. WHATEVER brawls disturb the street, There should bo pence at home, Where sisters... | |
| Young Men's Christian Association (England) - 1856 - 456 pągines
...truth expressed in simpler terms, than when the poet taught the child to sing — " In works of labor or of skill I would be busy too — For Satan finds some mischief still, For Idle hands to do." That labor is the punishment of sin, Is an error as contrary to reason, as it is unsanctioned... | |
| Robert W. Malcolmson - 1979 - 216 pągines
...natural Affection.'11 Warnings against the dangers of idle habits were sometimes delivered in verse: In Works of Labour or of Skill I would be busy too: For Satan finds some Mischief still For idle Hands to do.12 Idleness was regarded by one observer (and this was a common sentiment ) as 'the fruitful... | |
| David Guy Fountain - 1978 - 124 pągines
...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;...may give for every day Some good account at last." In Song 22, "Against Pride in Clothes," verse 4 reads: "The tulip and the butterfly Appear in gayer... | |
| Barton Levi St Armand - 1986 - 388 pągines
...little busy bee, Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower! In works of labour or of skill, I would be busy too; For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do. [ Works, 224] Such verses were ripe for parody. Where Lewis Carroll replaced Watts's honeybee... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1995 - 612 pągines
...the case of all poor people's children, we should read it thus: "In work, work, work. In work alway Let my first years be past That I may give for every day Some good account at last." "150 A deep hum of applause rose not only from the two teachers, but from all the pupils, who were... | |
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