| Protestant Episcopal Society for the Promotion of Evangelical Knowledge - 1858 - 190 páginas
...Thy will and disagree ; And grant that each of us may find The blessedness of being kind. BTJSy BEE. How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining...honey all the day, From every opening flower. How skillfully she builds her cell, How neat she spreads the wax, And labors hard to store it well With... | |
| Ohio State Board of Agriculture - 1886 - 1000 páginas
...a boy's attention, in some instances, by their good qualities, for he may have learned to sing — "How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining...gather honey all the day from every opening flower." Or he may remember to have read, "go to the ant, thou sluggard, consider her ways and be wise, which... | |
| George Stillman Hillard - 1858 - 132 páginas
...I please; for I have more sense than to sell my freedom for a crust." XXIV.-THE BUSY BEE. I'dle 1. .How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining...gather honey all the day From every opening flower! first 2. How skilfully she builds her cell! How neat she spreads her wax! bu'?y l im-prove' gath'er... | |
| Barton Levi St Armand - 1986 - 388 páginas
...Children, with the Protestant ethic embedded obdurately in such rhymes as "Against Idleness and Mischief: How doth the little busy bee, Improve each shining...gather honey all the day From every opening flower! In works of labour or of skill, I would be busy too; For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands... | |
| Don Gifford, Robert J. Seidman - 1988 - 704 páginas
...To improve the shining hour - From Isaac Watts's (1674-1748) hymn "Against Idleness." First stanza: "How doth the little busy bee / Improve each shining...gather honey all the day / From every opening flower!" 16.1228-29 (647:3-4). Mr Philip Beaufoy See 4.502-3n. 16.1232 (647:8). *The pink edition extra sporting... | |
| 1926 - 910 páginas
...success, then apply them. Medina, Ohio. THE WORK-DAY OF THE BEE Every school child has learned the rhyme How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining...gather honey all the day From every opening flower ? To the practical beekeeper this is an important question which he frequently attempts f> answer by... | |
| Kasey Michaels - 1994 - 372 páginas
...Johnny. Go on, recite for me." He pressed a kiss against her temple, thanked her, and then quoted: " 'How doth the little busy bee improve each shining...gather honey all the day from every opening flower!' That was Isaac somebody-or-other, I disremember at the moment. But that's what you are, little Sarah,... | |
| Rachel Fordyce, Carla Marello - 1994 - 304 páginas
...refers to a nursery rhyme by Isaac Watts, reproductions are related to the following stanzas: How does the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And...honey all the day, From every opening flower! How skillfully she builds her cell! How neat she spreads the wax! And labours hard to store it well With... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1995 - 612 páginas
...232) 'Haw doth . . . at last' Isaac Watts (1674-1748), 'Against Idleness and Mischief, Divine Songs : 'How doth the little busy bee/ Improve each shining hour, /And gather honey all the day/From every opening flower!' 151 (p. 233) come with post-horses use a series of horses, the fastest... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1996 - 876 páginas
...By day to read these wonders o'er, And meditate by nighty WATTS. SECTION IV. On Industry.. How does the little busy bee Improve each shining hour ;. And gather honey all the day, From ev'ry op'ning flow'r ! How skilfully she builds her cell ! How neat, she spreads the wax ! And labours... | |
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