 | Robert Aspland - 1842 - 846 oldal
...To be sure, this John Matthews was "remarkable for being an idle fellow;" but we learned in infancy that Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do, and John Matthews was accordingly publicly reproved for " kicking;" but there is no more on the record... | |
 | Mary Milner - 1848 - 808 oldal
...people, in ordinary circumstances, are often exposed. They had been carefully taught in early childhood, that " Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do ;" and they believed, that he would fill " idle and empty hearts with sin and folly." On this subject the... | |
 | 1848 - 494 oldal
...work. But, if the number of physicians in the neighborhood is multiplied, you will very soon discover that, "Satan finds some mischief still for idle hands to do." And the way it is done is through this propensity to prescribe for somebody, and everybody, whether they... | |
 | Barbara H. Farquhar - 1848 - 134 oldal
...persons, in the same circumstances, are usually exposed : we had been carefully taught in early childhood, that " Satan finds some mischief still, For idle hands to do ;" and idle empty hearts, too, he will fill with sin and folly. I firmly believe, that the only safety from... | |
 | Barbara H. Farquhar - 1849 - 152 oldal
...persons, in the same circumstances, are usually exposed : we had been carefully taught in early childhood, that " Satan finds some mischief still, For idle hands to do ;" and idle empty hearts, too, he will fill with sin and folly. I firmly believe, that the only safety from... | |
 | Tales - 1850 - 388 oldal
...truth. Unhappily for her too, she has a great deal of spare time. You remember the words of the hymn, that " Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do." And somewhere else I have read, that " Never was there idle brain, But bred an idle thought." Between idle... | |
 | Alexander Campbell, Charles Louis Loos - 1850 - 734 oldal
...in the same circumstances, are usually exposed : we had been carefully taiight in early childhood, that " Satan finds some mischief still, For idle hands to do;" and idle empty hearts, too, he will fill with sin and folly. I firmly believe, that the only safety from... | |
 | Barbara H. Farquhar - 1850 - 82 oldal
...persons, in the same circumstances, are usually exposed : we had been carefully taught in early childhood, that " Satan finds some mischief still, For idle hands to do ;" and idle, empty hearts, too, he will fill with sin and folly. I firmly believe, that the only safety from... | |
 | Tracts - 1852 - 566 oldal
...truth. Unhappily for her too, she has a great deal of spare time. You remember the words of the hymn, that " Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do." And somewhere else I have read, that " Never was there idle brain, But bred an idle thought." Between idle... | |
 | Alice Cary - 1852 - 378 oldal
...woman, and never thought of sitting down, at home or abroad, without some sort of work. She never forgot that " Satan finds some mischief still for idle hands to do," and often repeated it, though her temperament was not at all poetical. Mrs. Hadly, having got her supper... | |
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Satan finds some mischief still for idle hands to do" and it will be seen that we have no right to impose a perpetual holiday on children. 
