 | Happy restorations - 1849 - 116 頁
...servants were happier than Edward, and few had a fairer prospect of being respectable and esteemed in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call him. He had been honestly and religiously brought up ; his parents were poor, but worthy Christians, serving... | |
 | 1849 - 604 頁
...resignation the lot which it has pleased Almighty God to give' them ; in fao«, humbly to do their duty " in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call them;" and making the poor, oppressed, credulous folks believe, that the effects of had governments... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1850 - 762 頁
...should teach the people of England by deeds that they were their friends, not only to make them happy in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call them, but to lift them up to a level with themselves, and not to fancy that they were raising themselves... | |
 | Sir John William Kaye - 1851 - 680 頁
...such as has rarely been surpassed, he soon forgot the injustice that had been done to him. Cheerfully doing his duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call him, respected and beloved by all who had the means of appreciating the simplicity of his manners, the kindness... | |
 | Sir John William Kaye - 1851 - 688 頁
...such as has rarely been surpassed, he soon forgot the injustice that had been done to him. Cheerfully doing his duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call him, respected and beloved by all who had the means of appreciating the simplicity of his manners, the kindness... | |
 | Francis Storr - 1851 - 280 頁
...had himself a calling as high, though not so prominent, in substance the same with Joshua's, " to do his duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call him," and by His grace he walked worthy of that high calling in simplicity and truth. N With a happy spirit of... | |
 | 1851 - 1094 頁
...deserving of the highest commendation ; for in so doing he endeavoured to enable her to do her duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call her, and to fulfil his own duty also to his subjects. " It would appear that her progress was satisfactory... | |
 | 1852 - 518 頁
...capacities were the gifts 'with which God had graciously furnished him, that he might be enabled to do his duty in that state of life to which it had pleased Him to call him. His faults and his fall were owing to his having deserted the English Church for the... | |
 | Frances Milton Trollope - 1852 - 984 頁
...the reigning mode ; and having thus in all things meekly resigned herself to the doing her duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call her, she proposed to watch with a scrutinizing eye all the little insects that were about to play around... | |
 | 1853 - 496 頁
...3 See SPG Report, 1843, p. 60; or Archdeacon Grant's Bampton Lectures, p. 351, ed. 1845. object of doing his duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call him. The year 1847 was marked by the erection of three new sees within the limits of his diocese. Bishop... | |
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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. 
