| 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
...Teach me, my God and King, In all things 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 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
...Teach me, my God and King, In all things 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 the action, fine. 'We have all in our mind some abstracted and idealized picture of what the country... | |
| 1862 - 660 pages
...heaven espie. All may of thee 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... | |
| Edward Meyrick Goulburn - 1863 - 178 pages
...sing : " All may of Thee partake : Nothing can be so mean, Which with this tincture (for Thy sake) Will not grow bright and clean. " A servant with this...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... | |
| Half hours - 1863 - 408 pages
...heaven espy. All may of Thee partake : Nothing can be BO mean, Which with his tincture (for thy sake) Will not grow bright and clean. A servant with this...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... | |
| Amy (fict.name.) - 1863 - 138 pages
...for thee. All may of thee partake : Nothing can be so mean, Which with this tincture, "for thy sake," Will not grow bright and clean. A servant with this...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... | |
| Adeline Dutton Train Whitney - 1863 - 356 pages
...CHAPTER XV. NEW DUTIES. " Whatsoever thy 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... | |
| Arctic discovery - 1799 - 424 pages
...things thee to see ; And what I do in anything, To do it aa for thee. ' A Brief History of Muaoovia." " A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine :...Who sweeps a room as for thy laws. Makes that and the action fine.' AD 1556. — The lost navigators were not left unsought-for by their countrymen.... | |
| Matilda Horsburgh - 1863 - 200 pages
...Teach me, my God and King, In all things 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 the action, fine. For several years, the author of this Volume has been quite withdrawn by ill health... | |
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