 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1850 - 762 pages
...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 - 688 pages
...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 - 680 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | Mary Atkinson Maurice - 1853 - 322 pages
...instilled into him out of the Catechism, — " To learn and labour truly to get his own living, and to do his duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call him." * That mother, in the letter already given, attributes * "Wellington the Instrument of God," by the... | |
 | 1855 - 846 pages
...ever heard from his lips one murranr of impatience or discontent. Careful only to do his duty nobly in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call him, he kept the even tenor of his way, peaceful and contented, a faithful minister and steward of Him to... | |
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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. 
