...way, or, as the Church Catechism has neatly and unimprovably expressed it, upon "doing his duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call him." His almost constant ill-health, and, in a minor degree, the troubles which beset him in money...

...to which she subjected herself for the sake of economy ; and in endeavoring to fulfil her duties in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call her, she was happier than she had ever been in her father's house, and not less so than in her marriage...

...constrained to exchange the easy self-dedication of the cloister for the harder task of doing her duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call her. Margaret became the mirror of wives, mothers, and Queens, and none ever more worthily earned Her...

...bookish and more strictly ecclesiastical tastes. Both vicars were thoroughly good men, and anxious to do their duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call them. And of both the ladies who presided over the twohouseholdsthesamemigbtbe said, for never was a human...

...housekeeping, so they simply went to their own home, and began their life-work humbly and hopefully to do their " duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call them." Their house was in the dearest, coscycet spot, about three miles, straight nortb, of her old home ;...

...scarcely less gloomy and misguided hermits of early Christendom, when they fled from the duties of that state of life to which it had pleased God to call them, in like manner buried themselves in the fitting seclusion of the tombs. The great masters who have...

...went, she was to all intents and purposes a farmer's daughter, doing her duty with all her heart in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call her. This absence of pretension, together with her constant association with Mrs. Yates, had saved...

...aspired no higher, endeavoring only, in the words of the antiquated catechism, " to do his duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call him." Throughout the country there was an ordered, moderate, and temperate contentedness, energetic...

...him with scantier reverence than of yore. And yet he was so anxious to do right, and do his duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call him ! As to much he was in doubt ; but of two things he was quite sure, — that Frank Greystock was...

...prince of the royal blood, and if ever a man strictly, conscientiously, and thoroughly did his duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call him, that man was Private John Swivel. And why is he not still serving his Queen and his country, for...