| 1840 - 188 páginas
...did not know that; I thought it was bold ? I mil not fight with any one again. Against Idleness. . i. How doth the little busy bee, Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From fcvcry opening flower! «. Hotv skilfully she builds her cell! How neat she spreads the wax! And labours... | |
| William Charles Cotton - 1842 - 434 páginas
...set tiattj Ht fnntr in stoeetnesse. ECCLESIASTICUS xi. 3. Translation, at. 1603. PRELUDE OF MOTTOES. How doth the little busy Bee Improve each shining...skilfully she builds her cell ! How neat she spreads the wax 1 And labours hard to store it well With the sweet food she makes ! WATTS'S DIVINE SONGS. Je... | |
| Juvenile miscellany - 1842 - 368 páginas
...boys, come! We must leave Sir Gerold until this evening. BEES, AND THE INTERNAL STRUCTURE OF A HIVE. " How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining...gather honey all the day, From every opening flower." " MY dear Mary," said Mrs. Graham to her little daughter, who, instead of learning her lesson, had... | |
| 1856 - 1026 páginas
...reading about the bees in one of my little books, and I have been getting off those pretty verses — ' How doth the little busy bee improve each shining...gather honey all the day from every opening flower ;' and I thought I should like to see the little creatures at work at their hives when they go in and... | |
| 1853 - 892 páginas
...As busy as a bee." Most of us have had this saying quoted to us., and learnt the hymn beginning— " How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From ev'ry opening flower I" But why say " as busy as a bee ?" We have seen how hard caterpillars work,... | |
| John Ely - 1843 - 156 páginas
...and went to school and 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... | |
| Lyman Cobb - 1843 - 158 páginas
...sincere. Skil ful ly (skiI' f&l MJ), ad. with skill. READING LESSON XXIV. The Busy Bee. 1. How does the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And...gather honey all the day From every opening flower ! 2. How skilfully she builds her cell, How neat she spreads her wax, And labors hard to store it well... | |
| Robert Sears - 1843 - 578 páginas
...internal economy of the hive is committed, and upon them the whole labor of the community devolves. How skilfully she builds her cell, How neat she spreads her wax, She labors hard to store it well With the sweet food she makes — She gathers honey all the day From... | |
| Bristol Sunday-school union - 1844 - 236 páginas
...whom I love. 6 If my companions grow profane, 20 CM BUSY BEE. Against Idleness and Mischief. 1 UOW doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every op'ning flower ! 2 How skilfully she builds her cell, How neat she spreads the wax ; And labours hard... | |
| 1874 - 990 páginas
...essential part of the glory of the bee in the days of our grandmothers was its wonderful ingenuity : — How skilfully she builds her cell, How neat she spreads her wax 1 sang Dr. Watts, leading the chorus of the bee's didactic admirers, — immediately adding, too, as... | |
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