 | Frederic William Farrar - 1860 - 292 pages
...which actuated the Christian poet in the quaint lines — A servant in this cause Makes service half divine ; Who sweeps a room as for thy laws Makes that, and the action, fine. It is only in the fastidious conventionality of later ages that a false shame quenches... | |
 | Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd - 1861 - 468 pages
...to see: And, what I do in anything, To do it as for Thee. A servant with this clause, Makes drudgery divine: Who sweeps a room, as for Thy laws, Makes that, and the action, fine. We have all in our mind some abstracted and idealized picture of what the country... | |
 | Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd, Recreations - 1861 - 474 pages
...to see: And, what I do in anything, To do it as for Thee. A servant with this clause, Makes drudgery divine: Who sweeps a room, as for Thy laws, Makes that, and the action, fine. 'We have all in our mind some abstracted and idealized picture of what the country... | |
 | 1862 - 660 pages
...partake : Nothing can be so mean, Which with this tincture (for thy sake) Will not grow bright and clean. A servant with this clause Makes drudgerie divine...Who sweeps a room as for thy laws, Makes that and the action fine. This is the famous stone That turneth all to gold For that which God doth touch and... | |
 | George Herbert - 1863 - 372 pages
...partake : Nothing can be so mean, Which with his tincture (for thy sake) Will not grow bright and clean. A servant with this clause Makes drudgerie divine...room as for thy laws, Makes that and th' action fine. This is the famous stone That turneth all to gold : For that which God doth touch and own Cannot for... | |
 | Amy (fict.name.) - 1863 - 138 pages
...tincture, "for thy sake," Will not grow bright and clean. A servant with this clause, Makes drudgery divine : Who sweeps a room as for thy laws, Makes that and the action fine." " Sweeping a room" is a servant's act; but if it be done from love to Christ, from... | |
 | Half hours - 1863 - 408 pages
...his tincture (for thy sake) Will not grow bright and clean. A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine : Who sweeps a room as for thy laws, Makes that and the action fine. This is the famous stone • That turneth all to gold : For that which God doth touch... | |
 | Edward Meyrick Goulburn - 1863 - 178 pages
...tincture (for Thy sake) Will not grow bright and clean. " A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine. Who sweeps a room, as for Thy laws, Makes that and the action fine." Now if both a child's education, and a slave's drudgery find their place in the vast... | |
 | Matilda Horsburgh - 1863 - 200 pages
...to see ; And what I do in anything, To do it as for Thee. A servant with this clause, Makes drudgery divine : Who sweeps a room, as for Thy laws. Makes that, and the action, fine. For several years, the author of this Volume has been quite withdrawn by ill health... | |
 | Adeline Dutton Train Whitney - 1863 - 356 pages
...hand findeth to do, do it with thy might."— Ecc. 9 : 10. " A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine ; — Who sweeps a room as for Thy laws, - Makes that and the action fine." GEORGE HERBERT. Mis' BATHS' s " gumption " was a relief, — conjoined, even, as... | |
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