...birth placed him among Cornish peasants, not among Cosmopolite Bohemians. It would be as well to do his duty in that state of life to which it had pleased Providence to call him. He entered upon it, and did it well. Well, that is, if results prove anything...

...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...

...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 scoundrel,...

...plough the fields. And the cause of all this is simply spiritual pride, because he was unwilling to do ' his duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call him.' Providence had made him a novelist and a writer, and not a tiller of the fields ; Providence had made...

...word " nurse " exasperated him — in a word, how thoroughly out of place Christopher Lambe was in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call him. Yet these things had never been verbally touched upon by either of the two men to the other. What Thomas...

...dependent upon her aunt, and it was evident that the girl and the elderly lady were very content in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call them. It seemed to Val that Lesley was always happy ; and because she was happy herself she could not...

...the King,1 and in the words of the Catechism, to learn and labour 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 home-teaching of our forefathers. For book instruction,...

...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 scoundrel,...

...of the church catechism, which so many of us had to memorize in our childhood ; to do one's duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call him. It was a life-long call. Rebellion was impious : so said the current theology of acceptance and submission...

...sunbrowned young men there, who wore immaculate flannels and who appeared to possess no interest in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call them at Sunset Harbor other than a marked concern for her society. It stood to reason that Avis was...