 | George Herbert - 1667 - 362 pages
...tij/ifc) Will not grow bright and clean. Afervant with this claufc Makes drudgery divine. Who (weeps a room, as for thy laws, Makes that and th' action fine. This is the famous (tone That tiirneth all to gold : for that which God doth touch and own Cannot for... | |
 | George Keate - Margate (England) - 1790 - 388 pages
...an act noble : especially the motive to please God, and promote human happiness. Herbert sings,— "A servant with this clause Makes drudgery Divine...Who sweeps a room, as for Thy laws, Makes that and the action fine." When midnight came he heard the distant music, for " he heard the church bells beyond... | |
 | Richard Steele - Business ethics - 1807 - 238 pages
...me, my GOD and King, In all things thee to see ; And what I do in any thing, To do it as for thee : A servant with this clause, Makes drudgery divine...a room, as for thy laws, Makes that and th' action tine. HERBERT. 2. In dependence upon the help of Goia, let your religious principles be accompanied... | |
 | 1864 - 868 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 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... | |
 | 1845 - 752 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 drudgery divine ;...as for thy laws, Makes that and th' action fine." And the consciousness that we are God's servants, will not only give a higher character to our every-day... | |
 | Christian life - 1863 - 350 pages
...; Nothing can be so mean Which, with this tincture . for thy sake,' Will not grow white 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 HERBKRT. History tells us of men of earnest aspirations, who at the very beginning... | |
 | Christian life - 1864 - 346 pages
...; Nothing can be so mean, Which with this tincture, for (hy sake, ' Will not grow bright and clean. A servant, with this clause, Makes drudgery divine ; Who sweeps a room, as for tny laws, Makes that and th' action fine." Depend upon it, a great many of our troubles arise from... | |
 | 1824 - 706 pages
...doing his work well, and I defy them to despise him, rather will they say with old George Herbert : " A servant with this clause, Makes drudgery divine, Who sweeps a room as to God's laws, Makes that and the action fine." Follow an inventor through all the phases of his struggle,... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - Christian life - 1833 - 142 pages
...of our life, in that state of life to which God calls us, whether that duty be lofty or obscure. ' ' A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine, Who sweeps a room as for Thy laws Makes that and the action fine." If our life be guided by these principles, it is impossible that we should live in... | |
 | Villeroi (fict. name.) - 1835 - 304 pages
...me, my God and King, In all things Thee to see ; And what I do in any thing, To do it as for Thee. A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine :...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... | |
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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. 
