 | May Coverley (fict.name.) - 1860 - 274 pages
...partake : Nothing can be so mean That with this tincture, for thy sake, Will not grow bright and clean. A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine :...as for thy laws, Makes that and th' action fine." " Miss Davis listened with evident satisfaction ; and I am afraid that, notwithstanding the seriousness... | |
 | National association for the promotion of social science - 1860 - 800 pages
...of the girls, and infuse some of George Herbert's Elixir into their housework, teaching them that, A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine; Who sweeps a room, as for Thy laws, Makes that and the action fine:— such a presence would give to our girls precisely what we most want for them—a... | |
 | Book - 1860 - 300 pages
...tincture (for Thy sake) Will not grow bright and clean. A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine i Who sweeps a 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... | |
 | 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
...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Amy (fict.name.) - 1863 - 138 pages
...: Nothing can be so mean, Which with this 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... | |
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A servant with this clause makes drudgery divine; who sweeps a room, as for thy laws, makes that and the action fine. 
