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... Addresses to children, on the Beatitudes - Sivu 76tekijä(t) Lucy Lyttelton Cameron - 1828 - 120 sivuaKoko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
| John Stoughton - 1853 - 86 sivua
...possession of one of her daughters. My friend remarks that the circumstance illustrates the words — " In works of labour or of skill, I would be busy too, For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do." 53 And so ended Howard's last association with Bedford and Cardington. He went far away... | |
| Isaac Watts - 1854 - 472 sivua
...cell ! How neat she spreads the wax ! And labors hard to store it well "With the sweet food she makes. In works of labour or of skill, I would be busy too...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... | |
| Isaac Watts - 1854 - 460 sivua
...cell ! How neat she spreads the wax ! And labors Lard to store it well With the sweet food she makes. In works of labour or of skill, I would be busy too...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. Wnr should... | |
| 1869 - 374 sivua
...staid and staid, and wrote poetry for seventeen years. One of the verses was this : "In works of labor or of skill, I would be busy too, For Satan finds some mischief still, Por idle hands to do." But Isaac "Watts only expressed in poetry what Joseph put in practice when he... | |
| Isaac Watts - 1854 - 464 sivua
...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... | |
| William Cort - 1855 - 148 sivua
...la-bors hard to store it well With the sweet food she makes. In works of la-bor or of skill I wou?d be bus-y too ; For Sa-tan finds some mis-chief still...or work, or health-ful play Let my first years be past, That I may give for eve-ry day Some good ac-count at last." ELEMENTAEY SOUNDS. F OURTH SERIES.... | |
| Henry Ward Beecher - 1855 - 518 sivua
...spreads her wax ! And labors hard to store it well. With the sweet food sho makes. 3. In works of labor or of skill, I would be busy, too, For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do. 4. lu books, or work, or healthful play, Let my first years be past, That I may give for... | |
| Charlotte Phillips - 1855 - 188 sivua
...cell, How neat she spreads her wax, 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 ; Some evil work is present still ANON. In books, or work, or healthful play, Let my first years be... | |
| Collection - 1856 - 120 sivua
...! How neat she spreads the wax ! 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...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. Excelsior. The shades of night... | |
| D. W. Clark - 1856 - 450 sivua
...truth expressed in simpler terms, than when the poet taught the child to sing — " In works of labor or of skill I would be busy too — For Satan finds some mischief still, For idle hands to do." That labor is the punishment of sin, is an error as contrary to reason, as it is unsanctioned... | |
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