...to which she subjected herself for the sake of economy, and in endeavoring to fulfill 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...

...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...

...in this natural reflection. ' Never ' 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...

...celebrity. Alice was in the purest sense of the weird 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...

...celebrity. 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...

...Alice was in the purest sense of the word a Christian, and she felt the necessity of doing her duty m 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...

...ill-natured, she thought only of amusing herself. She never considered that she had any duty to perform in the state of life to which it had pleased God to call her; but, like too many other persons, her only object was to pass the day in doing as many things as she...

...naturally vain ; I was cursed with no high-soaring ambition ; it was sufficient for me " to do my duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call me ;" I looked upon this as the very crown of morality, and I do not now think that I was much mistaken....

...how happy was Mary to behold me once again, " using the world as not abusing it," doing my duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call me, but not abandoning myself wholly to the allurements of vanity, nor living in a whirlpool of unholy...

...short, had all the teaching necessary to enable me truly to get mine own living, and to do my duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call me. And with a)1 this useful knowledge, the greatest care was taken of our religious duties, as they...