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... The Ladies' Companion - Seite 751861Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Book - 1875 - 314 Seiten
...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 every day Some good account at last. Dr. Watts. CCVIII. 'TwAS God that made the ocean, And laid its sandy bed ; He gave the stars their... | |
| Ann Taylor - 1876 - 212 Seiten
...INFANT MINDS. BY JANE AND ANN TAYLOR. "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."— WATTS. Compute LONDON: GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND SONS, THE BROADWAY, LUDGATE. NEW YORK : 416, BROOME STREET.... | |
| Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 Seiten
...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 day Some good account at last. From among Watts's adaptations of the Psalms of David "to the Christian state and worship," this may... | |
| English reader - 1876 - 104 Seiten
...mis-chief still For idle hands to do. In books, or work, or health-ful play Let rny first years be past, That I may give for every day Some good account at last. RBADINO AND SPELLING COLUMNS. Hour. Shin'-ing. O'-pen-ing. Sweet. Skill. Spreads. Sa'-tan. Years. Neat.... | |
| Hiram Collins Haydn - 1880 - 172 Seiten
...by Dickens into the mouth of childhood : " 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;" the other extreme, of, if possible, more ruinous tendency, and with less of reason in it, is seen in... | |
| 1880 - 208 Seiten
...store it well With the sweet food she makes. In books, or work, or healthful play Let my first years be past, That I may give for every day Some good account at last. XVIII. ONCE there was a little boy, With curly hair and pleasant eye, A boy who always loved the truth,... | |
| 1880 - 296 Seiten
...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 every day Some good account at last. ISAAC WATTS. * 50 * THE BEE. ^ I LOVE to see The busy bee ; I love to watch the hive ; When the sun's... | |
| Ann Taylor - 1881 - 234 Seiten
...INFANT MINDS. By ANN and JANE TAYLOR. " In books, or works, or healthful play. Let jny first years be past. That I may give for every day Some good account at last.'' Watts T. NELSON AND SONS, PATERNOSTER ROW EDINBURGH; AND NEW YOBK. (OXanizntz. A TRUE 8TORY, ... ...... | |
| Isaac Watts - 1881 - 824 Seiten
...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 day Some good account at last. XXI. AGAINST EVIL COMPANY. WHY should I join with those in play, In whom I 've no delight ; Who curse... | |
| Charles Joseph Barnes - 1883 - 206 Seiten
...Shine out in your cheeks and eyes. In books or work or healthful play, Let my first years be passed, That I may give for every day, Some good account at last. If little things that God has made, Are useful in their kind, O let us learn a simple truth, And bear... | |
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