 | Edmund Burke - 1886 - 660 Seiten
...in the past, should order themselves lowly and reverently to all their betters, and do their duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call them." This he declared to be a rich man's gospel and a barren programme. It would be only tolerable... | |
 | 1835 - 866 Seiten
...please) of repining in this natural reflection. *' 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. And well he might be so, for no man ever passed through the world with leas to disquiet or to sour... | |
 | Cottage tales - 1829 - 160 Seiten
...learned to " honour his father and his mother ;" and had never been taught to " do his duty in the state of life to which it had pleased God to call him." " Young Isaac thus grew up, — his bad disposition unchecked, all the good advice of his friends disregarded,... | |
 | 1831 - 400 Seiten
...Alice was in the purest seuse 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... | |
 | Thomas Dale - 1831 - 402 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Author of The infant Christian's first catechism - 1833 - 238 Seiten
...but diligently to do his duty to his neighbour, that is, to all men with whom he was -concerned, in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call him. He knew that it was idle to pretend to religion, if he were not faithful in the duties of his station.... | |
 | 1833 - 270 Seiten
...deceased, we meet with the following affecting testimony to the worth of a person who fulfilled her duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call her : KING GEORGE III. Caused to be interred near this place, the Body of MARY GASKOIN, Servant to... | |
 | Frederick Chamier - 1833 - 240 Seiten
...family, at the head of which was the laird — all seemed to feel they were men — and useful men in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call them. Our cosmopolites, the sailors, who considered that " it was all fish that came to their net,"... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1834 - 394 Seiten
...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... | |
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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. 
