 If all men were able to satisfy conscience and ambition by doing their duty in that state of life into which it had pleased God to call them, civilization would advance with but tardy steps.  Stuart of Dunleath - Page 163by Caroline Elizabeth S. Norton (hon. mrs. George.) - 1851Full view - About this book
 | Charlotte Elizabeth - 1844 - 324 pages
...her mental faculties brought into play, and her habits formed on a model of frugal, patient diligence in that state of life into which it had pleased God to call her. But regarding Betsy as an orphan, and in a town, necessarily debarred from many of these advantages,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1844 - 614 pages
...excitement — dreams, philosophy, nerves, feelings — in one page the most morbid repinings at the state of life into which it had pleased God to call her — in the next, the most high-stalking protestations of an equanimity which it was impossible for... | |
 | Charlotte Elizabeth - 1845 - 566 pages
...her mental faculties brought into play, and her habits formed on a model of frugal, patient diligence in that state of life into which it had pleased God to call her. But regarding Betsy as an orphan, and in a town, necessarily debarred from many of these advantages,... | |
 | 1849 - 588 pages
...at hand, and in consequence a full third of the congregation quietly withdrew, in order to "do their duty in that state of life into which it had pleased God to call them." But in spite of this unavoidable diminution of the numbers, the rev. chaplain had the gratification... | |
 | Caroline Sheridan Norton - 1851 - 144 pages
...curious about other women's homes, and the degrees of affection and comfort enjoyed therein), she'owned hesitatingly that she thought Godfrey "very grand...trained as Eleanor's; and though none were as lovely as Frederick, or as clever as Clephane, they were good and governable. Even the last new haby (vice a... | |
 | Baroness Rosina Bulwer Lytton Lytton - 1854 - 540 pages
...helpless miseries to themselves. And as the broad foundation of their training nad been tO " Do THEIR DUTY IN THAT STATE OF LIFE INTO WHICH IT HAD PLEASED GOD TO CALL THEM ; " their chief knowledge consisted in never attempting to go beyond this state, but scrupulously... | |
 | Seasons - 1855 - 1830 pages
...they were baptised, would want to go out into the world, and to perform that duty, whatever it was, in that state of life into which it had pleased God to call them ; they would waut, therefore, at once that double portion of spirit which Elisha prayed for, that... | |
 | Henry Tattam (Archdeacon of Bedford.) - 1858 - 40 pages
...the benefit of others. She was a bright example of Christian virtue; and, through the grace of God, SHE DID HER DUTY IN THAT STATE OF LIFE, INTO WHICH IT HAD PLEASED GOD TO CALL HEE. WM WATTS, CROWN COURT, TEMPLE BAR. J b n vn •'• ''-^SHUJ '•-'•^-••- •'>•••... | |
 | 1858 - 452 pages
...was active, self-denying, lowly, and single-minded, spent in the zealous and faithful discharge of her duty in that state of life into which it had pleased God to call her, so that not only her family, but all who knew her, testified that she was an affectionate, kind, and... | |
 | Frederick Greenwood - 1859 - 240 pages
...way also ; he never even dreamed that she was unhappy at all, or had any reason to be discontented in that state of life into which it had pleased God to call her. On the contrary, he sometimes, in his sad way, looked out on her existence as on a pleasant prospect.... | |
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