 | William Weldon Champneys - 1862 - 238 psl.
...money to keep her, and, having thus almost exhausted his honest earnings, went back to his ship, to do his ' duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call him.' That poor boy spent nothing on the pleasures he had once so dearly loved. He had learned where true... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1862 - 760 psl.
...to which she subjected herself for the sake of economy ; and in endeavouring to fulfil 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... | |
 | Harriet Parr - 1863 - 328 psl.
...so far as to say that she had not forgotten her Church Catechism, but was trying to do her duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call her — that state being one of competence and quiet ease ; but Miss Delia shook her head, disapproving... | |
 | sir John William Kaye - 1864 - 710 psl.
...reproach. He was not bound to continue to follow such a calling, but whilst following it he was bound to do his duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call him. Whilst all these disturbing influences were at work, and on many accounts most actively in the neighbourhood... | |
 | Alfred Elwes - 1864 - 312 psl.
...motive ? Oh, no, no ! with a clear conscience, Minna could say her motive was only to do her duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call her ; not to make her cross, but to take it up when it lay in her path, and to follow Him, not in ways... | |
 | William Weldon Champneys - 1864 - 250 psl.
...prepared. She had done it all; faithfully, cheerfully, lovingly, had this poor girl " done her duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call her." So testified her good and pious master. She had been almost a mother to his motherless ones.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1865 - 624 psl.
...the King,* and in the words of the Catechism, to learn and labor truly to get his own living, and do his duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call him ; for that was the sum and substance of the hometeaching of our forefathers. For book instruction,... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1866 - 954 psl.
...sourness or bitterness (call it which you please) of repining in this natural reflection. If ever, indeed, was any man more contented with doing his...so, for no man ever passed through the world with lees to disquiet or to sour him. Bred up in habits which secured the continuance of that humble but... | |
 | John Morewood Gresley - 1866 - 674 psl.
...you of an ordinary Christian man of the same name, fulfilling, imperfectly no doubt, his duties in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call him; but still fulfilling them, as I believe, far more perfectly in God's sight than many others do. But... | |
 | G S. Morgan - 1866 - 196 psl.
...which had occupied her during her stay in Devonshire. Her parents were fully absorbed in the duties of that state of life to which it had pleased God to call them, — the father, the diligent bread-winner for a large family; the mother, the careful steward... | |
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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. 
