 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1859 - 504 páginas
...it much, most especially that chief of all purposes, the pleasing of God. Hence George Herbert — " A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine ;...as for thy laws, Makes that and the action fine." We treat God with irreverence by banishing Him from our .thoughts, not by referring to his will on... | |
 | Leonora G. BELL - 1859 - 186 páginas
...Nothing can be so mean, Which, with this tincture, FOB 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." And so even the youngest girl, if she acts on this principle of making the service of God her aim,... | |
 | Mary Bayly - 1859 - 326 páginas
...; Nothing can be so mean, Which, with 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 mill th' action fine." GEORGE HERBERT. " Now all this kindness, sympathy and so forth, that you talk... | |
 | One of themselves (pseud.) - 1859 - 484 páginas
...genius never caught the reflection of red-taped religionism, he feels that " All may of Thee partake : A servant with this clause ^ Makes drudgery divine : Who sweeps a room as for Thy sake, Makes that and th' action fine. This is the famous stone That turneth all to gold, For that which... | |
 | Children - 1859 - 198 páginas
...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 drudgery divine ; Who sweeps a room as for Thy cause Makes that and the action fine. This is the famous stone That turneth all to gold : For that... | |
 | Anna Bartlett Warner - 1859 - 652 páginas
...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 own $art) £0 t... | |
 | National association for the promotion of social science - 1860 - 800 páginas
...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;...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 sense of the gracefulness... | |
 | May Coverley (fict.name.) - 1860 - 274 páginas
...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 :...Who sweeps a room, as for thy laws, Makes that and th' action fine." " Miss Davis listened with evident satisfaction ; and I am afraid that, notwithstanding... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1860 - 292 páginas
...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 enthusiasm,... | |
 | Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd, Recreations - 1861 - 474 páginas
...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. 'We have all in our mind some abstracted and idealized picture of what the country parsonage, as well... | |
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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. 
