 | Thomas Hood - 1874 - 522 ページ
...way, or, as the Church Catechism has neatly and unimprovably expressed it, upon "doing his duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call him." His almost constant ill health, and, in a minor degree, the troubles which beset him in money... | |
 | Edward Newenham Hoare - 1875 - 150 ページ
...matter of course. It came to her in the order of Providence, and formed an element and feature in the state of life to which it had pleased God to call her, and in which she had resolved by the Divine blessing to do her duty. Thus matters might long have held... | |
 | Mary Charlotte Stapley - 1875 - 542 ページ
...professed to do, for the happiness of the people, he would have tried to make them contented " with that state of life to which it had pleased God to call them," instead of rousing their evil passions, and making them discontented, idle, and wretched. As... | |
 | Mary Elizabeth Braddon - 1876 - 328 ページ
...although not expressly set forth in the Catechism, was implied in the general idea of doing her duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call her. And if the Squire, although a hard man, should have happened to do the right thing in the way of legacies... | |
 | 1876 - 642 ページ
...although not expressly set forth in the Catechism, was implied in the general idea of doing her duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call her. And if the Squire, although a hard man, should have happened to do the right thing in the way of legacies... | |
 | 1876 - 668 ページ
...although not expressly set forth in the Catechism, was implied in the general idea of doing her duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call her. And if the Squire, although a hard man, should have happened to do the right thing in the way of legacies... | |
 | Barry Pain - 1904 - 386 ページ
...dreamed that he was in hell, and wakened in a sweat of horror.) It was enough for us to do our duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call us. And do it without grumbling or repining — without wanting to be something greater in the world's... | |
 | Fireside pictorial annual - 1876 - 814 ページ
...an episcopal kiss, he foretold her future greatness ; and invited her to serve her Saviour, not in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call her, but by abandoning the .duties and joys natural to her position, and spending her days in seclusion... | |
 | Thomas Boydell - 1907 - 332 ページ
...lesson he had been there taught was to learn • to live and labour truly to get his own living in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call him; ' and if he only did so, whether he were a chimneysweeper, or a weaver, or a master manufacturer,... | |
 | 1857 - 732 ページ
...might object, their purpose was to make the children Christians, and to fit them to do their duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call them. Prince Albert delivered an excellent congratulatory address — one that does honour to his head... | |
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Never indeed was any man more contented with doing his duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call him. 
