 | Arctic discovery - 1799 - 424 Seiten
...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 :...as for thy laws. Makes that and the action fine.' AD 1556. — The lost navigators were not left unsought-for by their countrymen. To search for them,... | |
 | Amy (fict.name.) - 1863 - 138 Seiten
...: 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...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 the desire to please... | |
 | Adeline Dutton Train Whitney - 1863 - 356 Seiten
...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 ;...as for Thy laws, - Makes that and the action fine." GEORGE HERBERT. Mis' BATHS' s " gumption " was a relief, — conjoined, even, as it was, to a mighty... | |
 | Matilda Horsburgh - 1863 - 200 Seiten
...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...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 For several years, the author of this Volume has been quite withdrawn by ill health from the common... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1863 - 552 Seiten
...sign-painter. But the next verse is smeared even worse. Who does not remember the saintly man's words : " A servant with this clause, Makes drudgery divine ; Who sweeps a room, as for Thy laws, t Makes that, and the action, fine." But, as Sam Weller remarked of Mr. Pickwick in a certain contingency,... | |
 | Cristina Malcolmson - 1999 - 324 Seiten
...tincture (for thy sake) 15 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 th'action fine. 20 This is the famous stone That turneth all to gold: For that which God doth touch... | |
 | Michael Hattaway - 2002 - 800 Seiten
...partake: Nothing can be so mean. Which with his rincture (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 th' acrion fine. This is the famous stone That turneth all to gold: For that which God doth touch and... | |
 | Ellen F. Davis - 2000 - 324 Seiten
...partake; nothing can be so mean, which with diis 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 die action fine. This is the famous stone that turneth all to gold; that which God doth touch and own... | |
 | Reijer Hooykaas - 2000 - 182 Seiten
...Herbert, in his well-known poem Elixir, teaching that the clause 'For Thy sake', makes a servant's drudgery divine: 'Who sweeps a room as for Thy laws, makes that and the action fine'. The wedding service of the Netherlands' Reformed Churches speaks of the 'divine calling' of the husband.... | |
 | Elizabeth Canham - 2001 - 132 Seiten
...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:...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 own Cannot for... | |
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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. 
