 | Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc - 1845 - 128 pages
...one day which it has taken other persons many years to learn : then — " In books, and works, and healthful play, Let my first years be past ; That...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... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Israel Alger (Jun.) - Readers - 1846 - 180 pages
...Sa'tan finds some mis'chief 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...lengthen night, And slumber in the morning' light ! * bte'ze. How sweet at fiarly morning's rise, To view the glories of the skies, And mark with curious... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - History - 1846 - 292 pages
...plantations and for the maintenance of the old and infirm. LESSON ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY FIRST Early Rising. How foolish they who lengthen night, And slumber in the morning light! How sweet at early morning's rise, To view the glories of tbe skies, And mark with curious eye, the... | |
 | Isaac Watts - Religious poetry, English - 1847 - 76 pages
...I 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 past; That...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... | |
 | Baptists - 1744 - 726 pages
...some 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 - Amusements - 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...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... | |
 | 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 ! lie still and slumber, Holy... | |
 | Charles Northend - Readers (Primary) - 1866 - 172 pages
...angry wolf lay dead. Trust ever to that guardian Power That watches for thy good, — ON EARLY RISINU. How foolish they who lengthen night, And slumber in the morning light ! How sweet, at early morning's rise, To view the glories of the skies ! The sprightly lark, with artless... | |
 | 834 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 past ; That I may gi ve, for every day, A good account at last. WORKS OF DARKNESS. SUSY SEES. THE JEWS. BRESLAU. A Hardened... | |
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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... 
