 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1870 - 524 pàgines
...cells, 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 work or healthful play let my first years be past, that I may give for every... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1870 - 138 pàgines
...cell! How neat she spreads the wax, And labours hard to store it well With the sweet food she makes 1 In works of labour, or of skill, I would be busy too ; For Satan finds some mis-chief still For idle hands to do. In books, or work, or health-ful play Let my first years be past, That I may give for... | |
 | Joseph Farrand Tuttle - 1870 - 294 pàgines
...riches ? IKDUSTKY. There is a volume of sound sense in that stanza of Dr. Watts: " In works of labor and of skill I would be busy too, For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do." 78 The late Professor Stuart of Andover was accustomed to say, in a half-serious manner,... | |
 | Child - 1871 - 328 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 pass'd ; That I may give for... | |
 | Hymns - 1871 - 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 For idle hands to do. In books, or work, or healthful play, Let my first years be passed ; That I may give for... | |
 | John Francis Campbell - 1872 - 274 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 past, That I may give for... | |
 | 1912 - 164 pàgines
...little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From ev'ry op'ning flower ! In works of labour, or of skill, I would be busy too ; For Satjin finds some mischief still One selects the happy hits, but it will be understood there is not... | |
 | Robert W. Malcolmson - 1979 - 216 pàgines
...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 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 past, That I may give for... | |
 | Heather Glen - 1983 - 420 pàgines
...castigation of 'idleness' 137 which was a prominent feature of eighteenth-century children's books: In Works of Labour or of Skill I would be busy too: For Satan finds some Mischief still For idle Hands to do.50 Yet it presents 'play' not as a specialized, and threatened, area of experience - the... | |
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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. 
