 | Henrietta Louisa Lear - 1869 - 286 psl.
...angering him ; so she continued constant in well-doing, endeavouring heart and soul to do her duty in that state of life to which it had pleased GOD to call her. The Hathanthwaites had a large family, but they were for the most part of an unhealthy, sickly... | |
 | Esther Charlotte A. Allen - 1869 - 526 psl.
...Divine Love. She would have been enabled, at first submissively, and then cheerfully, to do her duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call her ; and, most probably, the active exercise of Christian virtues and graces would eventually have... | |
 | William Dyson Wood - 1870 - 27 psl.
...unctuous self-complacency, if not using these very words, at any rate their equivalent, that he was doing his duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call him, and there the matter would end. But every now and then amongst men we know, or know of, we see a Hamlet,... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1870 - 550 psl.
...This quaint speaker had laid to heart the lesson once for all enforced upon her, to do her duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call her; her station was that of a servant, and, looked at aright, as honourable as a king's: she was to... | |
 | Thomas Adolphus Trollope - 1870 - 304 psl.
...it. He was a good sort of man in his way, was old Niccolo ; went to confession regularly ; and did his duty in that state of life to which it had pleased Providence to call him according to his lights ; was honest in his dealings ; knew in a rough sort... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1870 - 432 psl.
...This quaint speaker had laid to heart the lesson once for all enforced upon her, to do her duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call her . her station was that of a servant, and, looked at aright, as honourable as a king's: she was... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1871 - 466 psl.
...respectability, and paying his 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 matters,... | |
 | Edward Augustus Freeman - 1871 - 900 psl.
...constrained to exchange the easy self-dedication of the cloister for the harder task of doing her duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call her. Margaret became the mirror of wives, mothers, and Queens, and none ever more worthily earned Her... | |
 | 1871 - 262 psl.
...to which she subjected herself for the sake of economy ; and in endeavoring 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... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - 1872 - 492 psl.
...the tradesman aspired no higher, endeavoring only, in the words of the antiquated catechism, " to do his duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call him." Throughout the country there was an ordered, moderate, and temperate contentedness, energetic — but... | |
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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. 
