| Jane Anne Winscom - 1857 - 364 pages
...thee 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 th' action fine." HERBERT. ELEANOR FAWCETT was a soldier's daughter. Before Major Sterling's removal to India, this attractive... | |
| Sarah Stock Farmer - 1857 - 280 pages
...remark, "The lowest act is the more pleasantly done, and all the better done, when done for God." " Who sweeps a room as for Thy laws Makes that and th' action fine." It was in the light of the closet that Mr. Job guided his personal and family affairs. Once a year,... | |
| Thomas Vincent Fosbery - 1857 - 436 pages
...tincture, — FOB Tnr 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... | |
| Stories - 1857 - 190 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." George Herbert. Stories TOR I. DECEIT AND DISHONESTY. H. " PBOPEB PRIDE." m. rraE... | |
| Anna Bartlett Warner - 1858 - 656 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... | |
| Anna Bartlett Warner - 1858 - 662 pages
...partiike : 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... | |
| Hymns - 1858 - 134 pages
...tincture, For Thy sake, Will not grow bright and clean. 3 A servant, with this clause, Makes drudgery divine : Who sweeps a room, as for Thy laws, Makes that, and th' action, fine. 4 This is the famous stone, . That turneth all to gold ; For that which God doth touch and own Cannot... | |
| 1858 - 158 pages
...tincture — for Thy sake — Will not grow bright and clean. 3 A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine : Who sweeps a room as for Thy laws, Makes that and the action fine. 4 This is the famous stone That turneth all to gold : For that which God doth touch... | |
| Anna Bartlett Warner - 1859 - 652 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... | |
| John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1859 - 504 pages
...purposes, the pleasing of God. Hence George Herbert — " A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine ; Who sweeps a room, as for thy laws, Makes that and the action fine." We treat God with irreverence by banishing Him from our .thoughts, not by referring... | |
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