| Isaac Watts - 1829 - 76 Seiten
...thy name in vain, And learn to curse and learn to swear. SONG XX. AGAINST IDLENESS AND MISCHIEF. 1 How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From ev'ry op'ning flow'r ! 2 How skilfully she builds her cell ! How neat she spreads her wax ! And labours... | |
| Easy and familiar sermons - 1830 - 176 Seiten
...works, for fear they should become like the unprofitable servant who was cast into outer darkness. How doth the little busy bee, Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every op'ning flower. How skilfully she builds her cell, How neat she spreads her wax, And labours hard to... | |
| Isaac Watts - 1830 - 84 Seiten
...so soon ? I would not pass another day Without this work begun. 18. Against Idleness and Mischief. How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From ev'ry op'ning flower ! How skilfully she builds her cell! How neat she spreads the wax ! And labours... | |
| 1849 - 1188 Seiten
...hindrance and an incumbrance, a consumer but not a producer, a burden and a pest, a moth, and not a bee : — " How doth the little busy bee improve each...gather honey all the day from every opening flower ! In works of labor, or of 'skill, I would be busy too, For Satan finds some mischief still for idle... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1831 - 178 Seiten
...day to read these wonders o'er, And meditate by night. WATTS. SECTION IV. On Industry. 1. How does the little busy bee Improve each shining hour ; And gather honey all the day, From every op'ning flow'r ! 2. How skilfully she builda her cell ! How neat she spreads the wax ! And labours... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1831 - 182 Seiten
...day to read these wonders o'er, And meditate by night. WATTS. SECTION IV. On Industry. •I. How does the little busy bee Improve each shining hour; And gather honey all the day, From every op'ning flow'r ! 2. How skilfully she builds her cell! How neat she spreads the wax ! And labours hard... | |
| 1833 - 444 Seiten
...unwilling to have their attention again called to these excellent hymns. AGAINST IDLENESS AND MISCHIEF. How doth the little busy Bee Improve each shining...gather honey all the day From every opening flower ! u. How skilfully she builds her cell ! How neat she spreads her wax ! And labours hard to store it... | |
| John Ely - 1833 - 126 Seiten
...and went to school, an<J learned his lesson very well, and the master said he was a very good boy. 6 How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining...gather honey all the day, From every opening flower ! With how much art she builds her cell! How neat she spreads the wax ! And labours hard to store it... | |
| Levi Washburn Leonard - 1835 - 194 Seiten
...consonant? 8. Can you spell any word without a vowel ? 9. When are w and y consonants ? The Busy Bee. 1. How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining...gather honey all the day, From every opening flower 1 2. How skilfully she builds her cell 1 How neat she spreads the wax ! And labors hard to store it... | |
| Henry Ware - 1835 - 174 Seiten
...natural affection and Christian love, — the bonds of unity and peace. CHAPTER X. A PEEP INTO THE HIVE. How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining...hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening Mower. MANY persons who act from generous impulses, are soon checked and disheartened in a course of... | |
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