 | Book - 1859 - 334 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 still For idle hands to do. In books, or work, or healthful play, Let my first years be passed ; That I may give for... | |
 | Francis Fulford (bp. of Montreal.) - 1859 - 484 pàgines
...young and old, and will refer as well to idle heads and tongues, as to idle hands : In works of labor or of skill I would be busy too : For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do. NOTE. — It may interest some readers to examine the following " Definitions of Taste,"... | |
 | Francis Fulford - 1859 - 120 pàgines
...young and old, and will refer as well to idle heads and tongues, as to idle hands : In works of labor or of skill I would be busy too : For Satan finds some mischief still For idle bands to do. NOTE. — It may interest some readers to examine the folio-wing "Definitions of Taste,"... | |
 | James Peddie (of Edinburgh.) - 1860 - 200 pàgines
...When the devil finds a man idle he soon gets employment for him," or as paraphrased by Watts — " In works of labour or of skill I would be busy too For Satan finds some mischief still for idle hands to do. " The Scotch proverb is also characteristically expressive, " Idle dogs worry sheep."... | |
 | Little poems - 1860 - 160 pàgines
...the day, From every opening flower. How skilfully she builds her cell, How neat she spreads the wax, In works of labour or of skill, I would be busy too ; For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do. WATTS. AFTER SUNSET. THE sun has set, the sky is calm, And yonder uplands dim, With all... | |
 | Charles Richson - 1860 - 216 pàgines
...emmets, - how little - they are, in our eyes ! We tread them to dust - and - a troop of them dies. 2. In works - of labour, - or of - skill, I would be...For Satan - finds some - mis-chief - still • For i - dle hands - to do. In works of labour, - or of skill I - would be busy - too For - Satan finds... | |
 | Woodville Woodman - 1860 - 496 pàgines
...spreads her wax; And labours hard to store it well With the sweet food she makes. In works of labour and 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 past, That I may give, for... | |
 | David Caughie - 1861 - 330 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 still PERSEVERANCE. ROBERT BRUCE, King of Scotland, being out one day looking at the enemies of his country,... | |
 | William True Sleeper - 1861 - 194 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." CHAPTER IX. A SABBATH DAY AT THE EEFOKM SCHOOL. . AFTER Thomas Larkin was sent to the... | |
 | 1861 - 438 pàgines
...she spreads her wax, And labors hard to store it well With the sweet food she makes. In work of labor or of skill, I would be busy too, For Satan finds some mischief still Kor idle humls to do, For idle Imnda to do ; For idle hands to do, do, do, Things which thereafter... | |
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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. 
