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... Five Occasional Lectures: Delivered in Montreal - Seite 68von Francis Fulford - 1859 - 118 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1799 - 396 Seiten
...: For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to doIn books, or work, or healthful play, Let my first years be past ; That I may give, for every day, Some good account at lost. BLIND ROBERT. ONE day I met a little boy in the street, who was going along very slowly, feeling... | |
| Isaac Watts - 1807 - 410 Seiten
...For Satan finds some mischief still For idle bands to do. In books, or work, or healthful play, Let my first years be past, That I may give for every day AGAIKST EVIL COMPANY. WDY should Ijoin with those in play, In nhom I've no delight ; Who curse and... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 554 Seiten
...iindi some mischief still Fur idle hands to do. In books, or work, or healthful play, Let my iirst years be past, That I may give for every day Some good account at last. SONG XXI. AGAINST COMPANY. WHY should i join with those in play, In whom 1 've no delight; V>~bocime... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 558 Seiten
...some mischief still For idle hands to do. In hooks, or work, or healthful play. Let my urst yiars he past, That I may give for every day Some good account at last. SONG XXL AGAINST EVIL COMPANY. WHY should I join with those in play, In uh .m 1 'vt no iMight; Who... | |
| Hannah More - 1811 - 276 Seiten
...By several Young Persons. «« In books, or works, or healthful play. Let my first years be pass'd ; That I may give for every day Some good account at last/, Watts. In 1 vol. Itfmo 62 cents — 2 vols. with plates gl. HYMNS FOR INFANT MINDS. By the author of"... | |
| John Ely - 1817 - 124 Seiten
...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 every day, Some good account at last. Quar-rel, na-tur-ed, fel-!ow, lov-ing, clev-erly, let-ters, al-pha-bet, vow-els, syl-la-ble, con-sonanis,... | |
| Anne Tuke Alexander - 1819 - 116 Seiten
...satan finds some mischief stiff For idle hands to do. In books, or -yfork, or healthful playj., Let my first years be past, That I may give for every day ' Some good account at last. 12. Against Evil Company WHY should I join with those in play* In whom I've no delight ; Who curse... | |
| William Jillard Hort - 1822 - 186 Seiten
...would be busy too ; For folly finds some mischief still In books, or works, or healthful play. Let my first years be past, That I may give for every day Some good account at last. LESSON XXVI. LET us now go into Mr. Good's charming garden again, and pay another visit to the green-house,... | |
| Isaac Watts - 1824 - 36 Seiten
...§ntan ftnds some mischief still For Idle hands to do. , In books, or work, or healthful play, Let tny first years be past, That I may give for every day Some good account at last. SONG XI. i The Sluggard. 'Tis the voice of the sluggard; I heard him complain, "You've wak'd me too... | |
| Sarah Atkins - 1824 - 280 Seiten
...one volume with 29 engravings. " In books, or work, or healthful play, Let my first years be pass'd ; That I may give for every day Some good account at last. — Watts. THE WARS OF THE JEWS, as related by Josephus, abridged and simplified for the use of Young... | |
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