 WHOLE DUTY OF CHILDREN A CHILD should always say what's true And speak when he is spoken to, And behave mannerly at table; At least as far as he is able.  The Gordon Readers - Page 38by Emma K. Gordon - 1910Full view - About this book
 | College students' writings, American - 1902 - 524 pages
...your bones are very brittle, If you would grow great and stately You must learn to walk sedately." " A child should always say what's true, And speak when...mannerly at table — At least as far as he is able." This is not the wisdom of an elder, but of a mother of seven training up her dolls in the way they... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - Children's poetry - 1885 - 124 pages
...I keep Until we reach the town of Sleep. V WHOLE DUTY OF CHILDREN A CHILD should always say what 's true .^*- And speak when he is spoken to, And behave...mannerly at table : At least as far as he is able. VI RAIN THE rain is raining all around, It falls on field and tree, It rains on the umbrellas here,... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 396 pages
...they go, And still beside them close I keep Until we reach the town of Sleep. V WHOLE DUTY OF CHILDREN A CHILD should always say what's true And speak when...mannerly at table; At least as far as he is able. VI RAIN THE rain is raining all around, It falls on field and tree, It rains on the umbrellas here,... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 394 pages
...they go, And still beside them close I keep Until we reach the town of Sleep. V WHOLE DUTY OF CHILDREN A CHILD should always say what's true And speak when...mannerly at table; At least as far as he is able. VI RAIN THE rain is raining all around, It falls on field and tree, It rains on the umbrellas here,... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 400 pages
...they go, And still beside them close I keep Until we reach the town of Sleep. V WHOLE DUTY OF CHILDREN A CHILD should always say what's true And speak when...mannerly at table; At least as far as he is able. VI RAIN THE rain is raining all around, It falls on field and tree, It rains on the umbrellas here,... | |
 | Frederic Herbert Ripley, Thomas Tapper - School songbooks - 1895 - 136 pages
...II II =H No. 6. The Duty of a Child. Words by BOBERT Louis STEVENSON. (Scottish author, 1850-1894.) A child should al-ways say what's true, And speak when he is spo-ken to. Ex. 59. Ex. 6O. Ex. 61. Ex. 62. S ^^ ^^ /у iУ Ex. 63. -m^— ad2E - J -ei — S^H -- — 1 — |_^... | |
 | Literature - 1896 - 910 pages
...Similarly in this pronouncement on "The 'Whole Duty of Children," the genius is in the last line:— A child should always say what's true, And speak when...mannerly at table: At least as far as he is able. But, with all deference to Mr. Traill, this is not food for young readers. The fact that Mr. Stevenson... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - English literature - 1896 - 690 pages
...they go, And still beside them close I keep Until we reach the Town of Sleep. V WHOLE DUTY OF CHILDREN A CHILD should always say what's true And speak when...mannerly at table; At least as far as he is able. VI RAIN THE rain is raining all around, It falls on field and tree, It rains on the umbrellas here,... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1896 - 694 pages
...they go, And still beside them close I keep Until we reach the Town of Sleep. V WHOLE DUTY OF CHILDREN A CHILD should always say what's true And speak when...mannerly at table; At least as far as he is able. VI RAIN THE rain is raining all around, It falls on field and tree, It rains on the umbrellas here,... | |
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