 | 1869 - 374 pàgines
...staid and staid, and wrote poetry for seventeen years. One of the verses was this : "In works of labor or of skill, I would be busy too, For Satan finds some mischief still, Por idle hands to do." But Isaac "Watts only expressed in poetry what Joseph put in practice when he... | |
 | Henry Ward Beecher - 1855 - 518 pàgines
...spreads her wax ! And labors hard to store it well. With the sweet food sho makes. 3. In works of labor or of skill, I would be busy, too, For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do. 4. lu books, or work, or healthful play, Let my first years be past, That I may give for every day Some... | |
 | Charlotte Phillips - 1855 - 188 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...! 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 still, For idle hands to do. In books, or work, or healthful play, Let my first years be past ; That I may give for... | |
 | D. W. Clark - 1856 - 450 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Young Men's Christian Association (England) - 1856 - 456 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Henry Ward Beecher - 1856 - 934 pàgines
...spreads her wax ! And labors hard to store it well, With the sweet food she makes. 3. In works of labor or of skill, I would be busy too, For Satan finds some misehief still For idle hands to do. 4. In books, or work, or healthful play, Let my first years be... | |
 | 1857 - 232 pàgines
...These make me so happy, so blest ! NOVEMBER 21. Be not slothful. Hebrews, vi. 12. In works of labor or of skill, I would be busy too ; For Satan finds some mischief still, For idle hands to do. NOVEMBER, 22. Ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. 1 Peter, v. 5. Jesus, when... | |
 | Thomas Crampton, Thomas Turner (F.S.S.) - 1858 - 152 pàgines
...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 ; For Satan finds some mischief still, For idle hands to do. In books, or works, or healthful play, Let my first years be passed, That I may give for... | |
 | Protestant Episcopal Society for the Promotion of Evangelical Knowledge - 1858 - 190 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. In books, or work, or healthful play, Let my first years be past, That I may give for... | |
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In works of labour or of skill I would be busy too: For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do. 
