 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...season'd timber never gives ; But, though the whole world turn to coal, Then chiefly I r> . -, Religion. d approve it with a text, Hiding the grossnuss with...There is no vice so simple, but assumes Some mark of v This is the famous stone That turoeth all to gold, For that which God doth touch and own, Cannot for... | |
 | 1851 - 790 pages
...throws a lustre over those which are most menial. This is well expressed by our true Church poet — " All may of Thee partake — Nothing can be so mean Which, with this tincture, 'for Thy take,' Will not grow bright and clean. " A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine ; Who sweeps... | |
 | National Sunday school union - 1871 - 598 pages
...understood the keenness of the wound that drove the young man out in his despair to find a grave. RELIGION. ALL may of thee partake ; Nothing can be so mean,...tincture, for thy sake, Will not grow bright and clean. This is the famous stone That turneth all to gold, For that which God doth touch and own Cannot for... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1849 - 240 pages
...Teach me, my God and King, In all things tbee to see ; And what I do in anything To do it as for thee. All may of thee partake : Nothing can be so mean Which...tincture, For thy sake, Will not grow bright and clean. A serrant with this clause Makes drudgery divine ; Who sweeps a room, as for God's laws, Makes that and... | |
 | 1849 - 336 pages
...the heaven espy. All may of Thce partake ; Nothing ean bo so mean, Which, with this tineture, FOR THT SAKE, Will not grow bright and clean. A servant, with this clause, Makes drudgery divine; Whe sweeps a room, as for thy laws, Makes that, and the aetion, flne. This is the famous stone, That... | |
 | Mary Atkinson Maurice - 1849 - 156 pages
...me, my God and King, In all things Thee to see, And what I do, in any thing, To do it as for Thee. " All may of Thee partake, Nothing can be so mean, Which with his tincture (for Thy sake) Will not prove bright and clean. " A servant with this clause, Makes drudgery... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 pages
...timber never gives ; But, though the whole world turn to coal, Then chiefly lives. Religion. All mav of thee partake ; Nothing can be so mean, Which, with...tincture, for thy sake, Will not grow bright and clean. This is the famous stone That turneth all to gold, For that which God doth touch and own, Cannot for... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1851 - 1502 pages
...her hands to work, and her hands kept time to her voice music. GEORGE HERBERT. 1593-1632. RELIGION. All may of thee partake ; Nothing can be so mean,...tincture, for thy sake, Will not grow bright and clean. This is the famous stone That turneth all to gold, For that which God doth touch and own Can not for... | |
 | George Herbert - 1851 - 468 pages
...perfection. A man, that looks on glass, On it may stay his eye ; Or if he pleaseth, through it pass, And then the heaven espy. All may of thee partake : Nothing can be so mean, Which with his tincture, FOR THY SAKE, Will not grow hright and clean. A servant, with this clause, Makes drudgery... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1851 - 474 pages
...perfection. A man, that looks on glass, On it may stay his eye, Or, if he pleaseth, through it pass, And then the heaven espy. All may of Thee partake, Nothing can be so mean, That with this tincture, — FOR THY SAKE, Will not grow bright and clean. A servant, with this clause,... | |
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This is the famous stone That turneth all to gold; For that which God doth touch and own Cannot for less be told. 
