 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
 | Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd, Recreations - 1861 - 474 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:... | |
 | Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd - 1861 - 472 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 :... | |
 | Shirley Brooks - 1861 - 374 pages
...all unfortunately prone to prefer our pleasures to our duties. But the beautiful little hymn says : That I may give for every day Some good account at last. Those are the words, Mr. Lygon. Every day. Not every day except the day when I happened to be in the... | |
 | John Greenleaf Adams, S. B. Ball - 1861 - 368 pages
...mischief still, For idle hands to do. 4 In hooks, or work, or healthful play, Let my first years he past, That I may give for every day Some good account at last. 843. C. MHOWE'S nijiss. The Teacher's Prayer for Grace. 1 Teach us, O Lord, we earnest pray, Let grace... | |
 | Juvenile hymn book - 1862 - 266 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...That I may give for every day Some good account at hst. 294 CM WAITs. 1 T ET dogs delight to bark and bite, _Lj For God has made them so ; Let bears and... | |
 | James Stuart Laurie - 1863 - 72 pages
...of skill I would be busy too; For Satan finds some mis'chief still In books, or work, or healtlrful play, Let my first years be passed; That I may give for every day Some good ac'count at last. Watts. kid cart dead take goat milk bread cake glove silk heads lake THE GOAT AND HER KIDS. Do you... | |
 | Wesleyan Methodist missionary society - 1863 - 204 pages
...labour and 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." SEAS. THE NEGRO FISHEEMAN. WE have... | |
 | Selection - 1863 - 108 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. 100 L 1 BE present at our table, Lord... | |
 | Hymnals - 1863 - 168 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. WATTS. TIME AND ETERNITY.— c. M. How long sometimes a day appears ! And weeks — how long are they... | |
 | Thomas Pumphrey - 1864 - 384 pages
...vigour — all this is comprised in those beautifully simple? and instructive lines of Dr. Watts' : " 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." adapted for a little child, but instructive... | |
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