 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
 | Jane Taylor - 1844 - 192 pages
...ORIGINAL POEMS. BY THE TAYLOR FAMILY. ' J ^— ORIGINAL POEMS INFANT MINDS. n THE TAYLOR FAMILY. " In books, or work, or healthful play, Let my first...may give for every day Some good account at last." — Wattt. FROM THE TWELFTH LONDON EDITION. NEW YORK. PUBLISHED BY SAXTON & MILES, 205 Broadway. BOSTON—... | |
 | Bristol Sunday-school union - 1844 - 236 pages
...labour or of skill I would be busy too ; For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do. 4 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. Cl 1 CM NEW YORK. ** *• Against Evil... | |
 | 1845 - 128 pages
...many years to learn : then — " In books, and works, and healthful play, Let my first years be past ; That I may give for every day Some good account at last." Now the bees begin to stir from, their hives, and the gnats begin to fly about, and the insects are... | |
 | 1846 - 392 pages
...would be busy too : There always is some mischief still For idle hands to do. " In books, or works, or healthful play, Let my first years be passed, That I may give, for every day, A good account at last." [TO BE CONTINUED.] Musical Rats. J sTEwARD of a ship infested with rats used... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Israel Alger (Jun.) - 1846 - 180 pages
...still For idle hands to do. 4. la books, or work, or healthful play, Let iny first years be past ; That I may give for every day Some good account at last. SECTION V. On early rising. 1. How foolish they who lengthen night, And slumber in the morning' light... | |
 | Isaac Watts - 1847 - 76 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. SONG XXI. AGAINST EVIL COMPANY. Who curse and swear, but never pray ; Who call ill names, and fight... | |
 | 1744 - 726 pages
...mischief still For idle hands to do. 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." PAPAL INTOLERANCE IN CUBA. IN the winter of the declining health of my wife seemed lo make it imperative... | |
 | Lydia Maria Child - 1847 - 338 pages
...find, as the Bible tells them, that " It is more blessed to give than to receive." SPORTS AND PASTIMES. In books, or work, or healthful play, Let my first years be pass'd. WArra. SOME of these plays requiring a more minute explanation than others, we will suppose... | |
 | Isaac Watts - 1848 - 116 pages
...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 day Some good account at last. XXI. AGAINST EVIL COMPANY. WHY should... | |
 | Tales - 1849 - 300 pages
...labour, or of skill, I would be busy too ; For Satan finds some mischief btill For idle hands to do. In books, or work, or healthful play, Let my first years be past ; That I may give for ev'ry day Some good account at last. WATTS. A CRADLE HYMN. Hush, my dear... | |
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