 | Edmund Burke - History - 1886 - 660 pages
...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... | |
 | England - 1835 - 866 pages
...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... | |
 | English literature - 1834 - 566 pages
...it. He turned his natural gifts and his acquired fortune to their true intents ; he did " his duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call him." I wish you could have seen him presiding in his own magnificent hall in these days, — not days... | |
 | Gift books - 1831 - 400 pages
...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 that... | |
 | Thomas Dale - 1831 - 402 pages
...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 that... | |
 | Periodicals - 1833 - 270 pages
...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 the... | |
 | Author of The infant Christian's first catechism - Bible stories, English - 1833 - 238 pages
...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... | |
 | Frederick Chamier - English fiction - 1833 - 240 pages
...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,"... | |
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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. 
