 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...  New National First[-Fifth] Reader - Page 173by Charles Joseph Barnes, J. Marshall Hawkes - 1883Full view - About this book
 | 1838 - 286 pages
...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 day, Some good account at last. XXXII. ROME. IN ancient times, when... | |
 | Henry Butter - 1839 - 190 pages
...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 every day Some good account at last. BROTHERLY LOVB. The God of heaven is... | |
 | Gabriel Poillon Disosway - 1839 - 60 pages
...she would at such times repeat: 3 " In books, or work, or healthful play, Let my first hours be past; That I may give for every day, Some good account at last." She was uncommonly neat in her attire, and loved cleanliness, so that her nurse often had occasion... | |
 | 1840 - 188 pages
...labour, or of skill, I would be busy too ; For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do. IV. 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. Tfi£ Lion and the Mouse. 2. While... | |
 | Lady - 1842 - 94 pages
...i WITH ENGRAVINGS. By A LADY. " In books, or work, or healthful plajr, Let my first years be past, That I may give for every day , Some good account at last." HARTFORD: BROWN AND PARSONS, 20 STATE STREET. 1842. -\ Entered according to Act of Congress in the... | |
 | 1856 - 1026 pages
...mischief still for idle hands to do. In books, or works, or healthful play, let my first hours be past, That I may give, for every day, some good account at last." "THE SWALLOWS ARE COMING!" "THE SWALLOWS ARE GOING!" THESE words are in nearly every boy's mouth late... | |
 | Harriet Newell Cook - 1842 - 138 pages
...or of skill " I would be busy too ; " For Satan finds some mischief stiU " For idle hands to do. " In books, or work, or healthful play, " Let my first years be past j " That I may give for every day " Some good account at last." THE There are two or three varieties... | |
 | Lyman Cobb - 1843 - 158 pages
...labor or of skill, I would be busy too, > There always is some mischief still For idle hands to do. 4. In books, or work, or healthful play, Let my first years be passed, That I may give, for every day, A good account at last. QUESTIONS. — What does the busy bee improve 7 What doe* she gather honey... | |
 | Mamma - 1843 - 116 pages
...jump about to keep yourself warm. In books, and work, and healthful play, Let my first years be past, That I may give for every day, Some good account at last. Watts. XIX. PAPA 8 RETURN— THE BOX OP BRICKS. Now, my little boy, clear away your playthings. It... | |
 | John Ely - 1843 - 156 pages
...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. S LESSON XXIII. TWENTY-THIRD. 1. Billy was a very good boy; he would always do as he was bid : he would... | |
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