...situation she filled, and in her own temper and cheerfulness shewed she was striving to do her duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call her. Amelia's first letter was a great struggle, — she could not overcome her love of home, and at...

...bolder man, seeing that although he hated a military life, he, to the very utmost, did his duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call him ; and if half be true of what is told of him, there never was knight of the actual days of chivalry...

...would endeavour to perform that which was the highest honour to which they could attain, — to do their duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call them. However, he did not come there for the purpose of making a long address, but solely for the purpose...

...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...

...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. He entered upon his high office in October, 1 793. At the end of the year, he wrote in his private...

...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 God to call him. Thus the interview, unsatisfactory to both parties, ended, and Martha, as she met the boy coming...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...