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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... "
Introduction to the English Reader, Or A Selection of Pieces: In Prose and ... - Page 138
by Lindley Murray - 1831 - 168 pages
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Melodies for Childhood

Children's poetry - 1857 - 300 pages
...cell, How neat she spreads her wax, And labors hard to store it well With the sweet food she makes. In books, or work, or healthful play, Let my first years be passed, That I may give for every day Some good account at last. WATTS. CA8ABIANOA. 167 CASABIANCA....
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The American Girl's Book, Enlarged: Including the American Girl's Book, by ...

Eliza Leslie - Amusements - 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...
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Hymns and Poetry for the Young

Protestant Episcopal Society for the Promotion of Evangelical Knowledge - Children's poetry, American - 1858 - 190 pages
...labor 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. LOVE BETWEEN BROTHERS AND SISTERS. WHATEVER brawls disturb the street, There should be peace at home...
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Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volume 45

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 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 for...
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The Second Primary Reader

George Stillman Hillard - Readers - 1858 - 132 pages
...something ill For idle hands to do. 4. In books, or works, or healthful play, Let my first years be passed, That I 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?...
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The Home Book of Verse, American and English, 1580-1912, Volume 1, Pages 1-456

American poetry - 1915 - 488 pages
...of labor 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 passed, That I may give for every day Some good account at last. Isaac Watts [1674-1748] 'LET DOGS...
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Choice Literature, Book 2

Readers - 1912 - 172 pages
...of labor 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 passed ; That I may give for every day Some good account at last. THE CONCEITED APPLE BRANCH HANS CHRISTIAN...
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Historical Collections: Collections and Researches Made by the ..., Volume 38

Michigan - 1912 - 866 pages
...age, 1832, appears this verse: "On books, or work, or healthful play, Let my first years be passed, That I may give for every day Some good account at last." A sampler owned in my family is embroidered in memory of my great grandmother's sister and brother,...
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The Lives of the British Hymn-writers: Being Personal Memoirs Derived ...

Thomas Wright - 1914 - 382 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." Some of the thoughts in Song 18, " Against scoffing and calling names," reappear in the verses at the...
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll - 1914 - 218 pages
...labor, 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 ev'ry day Some good account at last. Father William was written by Robert Southey, an English poet,...
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