 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
 | Eliza Leslie - 1857 - 706 pages
...the mind or exercising the body, and at the same time interesting the attention. SPORTS AND PASTIMES. In books, or work, or healthful play, Let my first years be pass'd. WATTs. SOME of these plays require a more minute explanation than others. We will suppose a... | |
 | Thomas Crampton, Thomas Turner (F.S.S.) - 1858 - 152 pages
...would be busy too ; For Satan finds some mischief still, For idle hands to do. In books, or works, or healthful play, Let my first years be passed, That...may give for every day Some good account at last. BIRDS. How sweet it is to hear the birds sing ! They hop and jump as well as fly. When the snow is... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1858 - 132 pages
...would be busy too ; For there is always something ill For idle hands to do. 4. In books, or works, or healthful play, Let my first years be passed, That...may give for every day Some good account at last. XXV.-THE BEAR AND HER CUBS. n&ugh'ty dis-pute' fight'ing cor'ner brought cer'tain. 3 them-sSlve?' brolh'er?... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1858 - 638 pages
...only genteel children should ever be permitted to play. The well-known lines of Dr. Isaac Watts, " In books, or work, or healthful play, Let my first years be past," were applicable, she maintained, only to the children of families of the wealthier sort ; while... | |
 | Book - 1859 - 334 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...may give for every day Some good account at last. Watts A LITTLE CHILD'S EVENING HYMN. JESUS, tender Shepherd, hear me, Bless thy little lamb to-night... | |
 | Francis Fulford (bp. of Montreal.) - 1859 - 484 pages
...Dr. Watt's simplest little Hymns : In books or worka or HEALTHFUL play, May my first years be past, That I may give for every day Some good account at last. In the simplicity of the diction we forget the greatness of the thought. And having referred to the... | |
 | Francis Fulford - 1859 - 120 pages
...Dr. Watt's simplest little Hymns : In books or works or HEALTHFUL play, May my first years be past, That I may give for every day Some good account at last. In the simplicity of the diction we forget the greatness of the thought. And having referred to the... | |
 | 1860 - 138 pages
...labor or of skill, I would be busy, too, Lest there be found 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. db&==rj—f-\ to=4 *^F ••PH^-ferf... | |
 | 1862 - 542 pages
...will soon be sent for." " But look at the time I am wasting," persisted Mary. " Mamma often says — ' In books, or work, or healthful play, Let my first years be passed.' Now, this very day I have studied the ' books,' and I have done the ' work, and now I want the ' healthful... | |
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