...the tradesman 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 — but...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...spotlessly by peer or 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 he...

...did not treat 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 Grey stock was a...

...quite a sufficient amount of that commodity to carry him through with credit, and even distinction, in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call him. Such a picture would be a true one. Good nature, carelessness, generosity, good looks, steeple-chasing...

...and paying his 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 matters,...

...would have been better if he had stayed at home and comforted his bride, and performed his duties in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call him. After many years' begging at the door of the church, he came home. He performed menial services in...