 | 1834 - 428 psl.
...to which she subjected herself for the sake of economy, and in endeavoring to fulfill her duties in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call her, she was happier than she had ever been in her father's house, and not less so than in her marriage... | |
 | Mrs. O'Neill - 1835 - 502 psl.
...Alice was in the purest sense of the weird a Christian, and she felt the necessity of doing her duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call her. She shrank not from the useful exercise of her abilities, and she had good sense enough to perceive... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 1835 - 588 psl.
...Alice was in the purest sense of the word a Christian, and she felt the necessity of doing her duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call her. She shrank not from the useful exercise of her abilities, and she had good sense enough to perceive... | |
 | Sir John William Kaye - 1836 - 1050 psl.
...naturally vain ; I was cursed with no high-soaring ambition ; it was sufficient for me " to do my duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call me ;" I looked upon this as the very crown of morality, and I do not now think that I was much mistaken.... | |
 | sir John William Kaye - 1837 - 922 psl.
...how happy was Mary to behold me once again, " using the world as not abusing it," doing my duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call me, but not abandoning myself wholly to the allurements of vanity, nor living in a whirlpool of unholy... | |
 | Catherine Grace F. Gore - 1839 - 896 psl.
...when solemnly appealing to his sons as friends, and to ourselves as neighbours, whether he had ' done his duty in that state of life to which it had pleased GOD to call him f " " It is not always easy to set boundaries to the sphere assigned us," observed the Rector gravely.... | |
 | Mrs. Gore (Catherine Grace Frances) - 1839 - 330 psl.
...when solemnly appealing to his sons as friends, and to ourselves as neighbours, whether he had ' done his duty in that state of life to which it had pleased GOD to call him ?' " " It is not always easy to set boundaries to the sphere assigned us," observed the Rector gravely.... | |
 | 1839 - 444 psl.
...short, had all the teaching necessary to enable me truly to get mine own living, and to do my duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call me. And with a)1 this useful knowledge, the greatest care was taken of our religious duties, as they... | |
 | 1840 - 844 psl.
...talents to his Lord's glory, occupying till he should come, and endeavouring to discharge his duties in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call him. Of the many who were solaced by him in affliction, relieved in pecuniary pressure, advised in spiritual... | |
 | John George Breay - 1841 - 572 psl.
...wishes frustrated, not accounting himself worthy to bear the name of Christ, and desirous only to fulfil his duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call him. In this spirit he cheerfully and diligently fulfilled the duties assigned to him. The remarkable openness... | |
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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. 
