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- books.google.comWolfgang Mieder, Stewart A. Kingsbury, Kelsie B. Harder - 1992 - 710 pages
20c. coll.: ODEP 120, Stevenson 336:2. 24. When children stand quiet, they have
done some harm. Vars.: (a) A quiet child is plotting mischief, or has done it. (b)
When children are doing nothing, they're doing mischief. Rec. dist.: U.S., Can. - books.google.com1884 - 1216 pages
Misanthropy is the child of insanity. ... The opinions of the misanthropical rest
upon this very partial basis, that they adopt the bad faith of a few as evidence of
the worthlessness of all. ... MISCHIEF. Mischief comes soon enough. Repair
mischief before repining. Salis. W. Penn. Men, by doing nothing, soon learn to do
mischief ... - books.google.com1895
in their habits of life, and, in fact, worthy men and excellent neighbours ; bat
regarded in connection with the fruit trees they think they are growing, they are
mere children, untaught and untrained, either doing nothing or doing mischief.
That this ... - books.google.comWilliam Meynell Whittemore - 1867
child curse, and swear, and take God's name in vain, be sure that such a child
would be a bad companion. ... Children who do to others as they would that
others should do to them, are good company ; but children who are fond of
mischief, and of doing ilamage to what belongs to other ... Now I am come to the
second part of the address, in which I shall advise you to have nothing to do with
bad company. - books.google.com1870
You children do mischief very often without intending it, and so you think it is no
harm, and though you are scolded and punished for doing it, you don't look upon
it at all in the same way as a great many other sins which you would be ... the
grace before tea, but when they stood up again and sang — ' We thank Thee,
God, for this our food,' there was nothing left to make them look pretty except the
flowers. - books.google.comHenry Fielding - 2009 - 540 pages
I remember a wise old gentleman who used to say, "When children are doing
nothing, they are doing mischief." I will not enlarge this quaint saying to the most
beautiful part of the creation in general; but so far I may be allowed, that when the ... - books.google.comHenry Fielding, Thomas Roscoe - 1836
I remember a wise old gentleman, who used to say, " When children are doing
nothing, they are doing mischief." I will not enlarge this quaint saying to the most
beautiful part of the creation in general ; but so far I may be allowed, that when
the ... - books.google.com1895
in their habits of life, and, in fact, worthy men and excellent neighbours ; but
regarded in connection with the fruit trees they think they are growing, they are
mere children, untaught aid untrained, either doing nothing or doing mischief.
That this ... - books.google.comRobert Andrews - 1993 - 1092 pages
22 When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief. HENRY FIELDING
(1 707-54), English novelist, dramatist. Quoting "a wise old gentleman," in Tom
Jones, bk. 15, ch. 2 (1749). 23 Strange new problems are being reported in the ... - books.google.comMaverick Messenger - 2011 - 304 pages
We need to spend more time doing nothing ... to stop wasting time that could be
better spent: • walking on a beach • hugging my daughters • singing to my
children before they go to sleep, • writing a song or playing with a band • gazing
at stars, ...