 | 1872 - 752 psl.
...did not treat him with scantier reverence than of yore. And yet he was so anxious to do right, and do his duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call him ! As to much he was in doubt ; but of two things he was quite sure, — that Frank Greystock was a... | |
 | Thomas Adolphus Trollope - 1872 - 322 psl.
...strictly ecclesiastical tastes. Both vicars were thoroughly good men, and anxious to do their duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call them. And of both the ladies who presided over the twohouseholdsthesamemigbtbe said, for never was... | |
 | Ellen Warner Kirk - 1872 - 180 psl.
...went, she was to all intents and purposes a farmer's daughter, doing her duty with all her heart in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call her. This absence of pretension, together with her constant association with Mrs. Yates, had saved... | |
 | 1872 - 620 psl.
...scarcely less gloomy and misguided hermits of early Christendom, when they fled from the duties of that state of life to which it had pleased God to call them, in like manner buried themselves in the fitting seclusion of the tombs. The great masters who... | |
 | 1872 - 738 psl.
...simply went to their own home, and began their life-work humbly and hopefully to do their " duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call them." Their house was in the dearest, coscycet spot, about three miles, straight nortb, of her old... | |
 | Richard Mounteney Jephson - 1873 - 340 psl.
...peer or prince of the royal blood, and if ever a man strictly, conscientiously, and thoroughly did his duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call him, that man was Private John Swivel. And why is he not still serving his Queen and his country, for he... | |
 | Anthony Trollope - 1873 - 382 psl.
...did not treat him with scantier reverence than of yore. And yet he was so anxious to do right, and do his duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call him ! As to much he was in doubt ; but of two things he was quite sure, — that Frank Grey stock was a... | |
 | Richard Mounteney Jephson - 1873 - 328 psl.
...quite a sufficient amount of that commodity to carry him through with credit, and even distinction, in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call him. Such a picture would be a true one. Good nature, carelessness, generosity, good looks, steeple-chasing... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1874 - 522 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,... | |
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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. 
