 | Sir John William Kaye - 1859 - 576 頁
...trustful spirit, not at all dazzled, not at all inflated, but prayerfully and painfully endeavouring to do his duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call him. Ho entered upon his high office in October, 1793. At the end of the year, he wrote in his private journal,... | |
 | John William Burgon - 1859 - 556 頁
...bid the men abandon their profession ; but merely requires of them the performance of " their duty in that state of life to which it had pleased GOD to call them." See the last note on St. Luke vii. 9. The same remark applies equally to what was said to the... | |
 | Annie Edwards - 1859 - 332 頁
...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;... | |
 | William Weldon Champneys - 1862 - 238 頁
...money to keep her, and, having thus almost exhausted his honest earnings, went back to his ship, to do his ' duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call him.' That poor boy spent nothing on the pleasures he had once so dearly loved. He had learned where true... | |
 | Lilian, Author of The chorister's rest - 1862 - 148 頁
...present of future plans and prospects, and only placed strongly before him the necessity of cheerfully doing his duty in that state of life to which it had pleased (rod to call him. Thus the interview, unsatisfactory to both parties, ended, and Martha, as she met... | |
 | Harriet Parr - 1863 - 328 頁
...so far as to say that she had not forgotten her Church Catechism, but was trying to do her duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call her—that state being one of competence and quiet ease ; but Miss Delia shook her head, disapproving... | |
 | sir John William Kaye - 1864 - 710 頁
...reproach. He was not bound to continue to follow such a calling, but whilst following it he was bound to do his duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call him. Whilst all these disturbing influences were at work, and on many accounts most actively in the neighbourhood... | |
 | Alfred Elwes - 1864 - 312 頁
...motive ? Oh, no, no ! with a clear conscience, Minna could say her motive was only to do her duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call her ; not to make her cross, but to take it up when it lay in her path, and to follow Him, not in ways... | |
 | William Weldon Champneys - 1864 - 250 頁
...prepared. She had done it all; faithfully, cheerfully, lovingly, had this poor girl " done her duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call her." So testified her good and pious master. She had been almost a mother to his motherless ones.... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1865 - 758 頁
...which you jilease) 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 less to disquiet or to sour him.... | |
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doing his duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call him, and 
