 | Ada Cambridge - 1865 - 42 pages
...He did not go to the Sunday school and learn from Mrs. Fairfax's gentle lips that he should do his duty in that state of life into which it had pleased GOD to call him, for nothing! Happy little Frank ! Good little Frank! GOD loved him all the more because he had... | |
 | Golden sayings - 1870 - 156 pages
...poor girl trying to look like a lady, and choosing a false independence, instead of being content with that state of life into which it had pleased God to call her. I hope she was truly sorry, and through grace, when she got better — which she did after a time —... | |
 | Jean Middlemass - 1872 - 340 pages
...been raised intellectually above her compeers solely that she might rebel, soul and body, against the state of life into which it had pleased God to call her? If so, what had he done when he held out his right hand in all good faith to help her up the ladder... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1873 - 364 pages
...to educate the labourer was to unfit him for the duties (they might have said the degradations) of " that state of life into which it had pleased God to call him " — the formula of consolation always addressed to the poor for the repression of any impious... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1874 - 516 pages
...to educate the labourer was to unfit him for the duties (they might have said the degradations) of " that state of life into which it had pleased God to call him " — the formula of consolation always addressed to the poor for the repression of any impious... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1874 - 508 pages
...to educate the labourer was to unfit him for the duties (they might have said the degradations) of " that state of life into which it had pleased God to call him "—the formula of consolation always addressed to the poor for the repression of any impious desire... | |
 | 1875 - 592 pages
...His workmen, but He carries on the work." minded religious woman, who, in the words of the Catechism, did her duty in that state of life into which it had pleased God to call her. Faithful in the exercise of her gifts, she encountered, with great good humour, the obliquy, ridicule... | |
 | Thomas Davies King - 1875 - 202 pages
...from picking and stealing, and their tongues from evil-speaking, lying and slandering, and did their duty in that state of life into which it had pleased God to call them." From their long intimacy with Shakspere, their daily converse with him during the theatrical... | |
 | William Edward Norris - 1877 - 314 pages
...practical knowledge of farming, and a fair smattering of law, and, upon the whole, did his duty well in. that state of life into which it had pleased God to call him. He liked a circus, however, and avowed his liking honestly. Why not ? Who did not enjoy such exhibitions... | |
 | Cecilia Anne Jones - 1879 - 376 pages
...kindness. He undertook the care of the orphan lad, who lived to be a good, honest, steady man, doing his duty in that state of life into which it had pleased God to call him. And Jack, too, grew from a boy into a youth, from a youth into a man, leading the same quiet,... | |
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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. 
