 I didn't look at you more than at anybody else. It took me all my time to keep my temper down lest it should burn you all up. I didn't want to be rude to you people, but I found it wasn't very easy because threats were the only argument I had. Was I very...  The Rescue: A Romance of the Shallows - Page 323by Joseph Conrad - 1921 - 381 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Brian Hill - Sermons, English - 1822 - 454 pages
...And this will be said, however faithful, laborious, and diligent you * Excel, r. 17. may be in that state of life, to which it has pleased God to call you. Upon the whole then, a moderate degree of experience will prove to the sincere Christian, that, however... | |
 | 1831 - 548 pages
...during the year that has just closed, bought any thing not only so useless, but so unsuitable to " that state of life to which it has pleased God to call you,'" as ear-rings ? Or have you purchased any thing in dress that is merely ornamental ? Have you, instead... | |
 | Augustus William Hare - 1836 - 526 pages
...parents or children, husbands or wives, — are you, in a word, more careful to do your duty in that state of life to which it has pleased God to call you, — than you were a year ago? If your life can shew none of these marks of progress, if the hour-hand... | |
 | Edward Thompson - Sermons, English - 1838 - 532 pages
...in God; believe in the Saviour; pray for the assistance of the Holy Spirit, and do your duty in that state of life, to which it has pleased God to call you. "For this, I say, brethren, the time is short." SERMON IV. LUKE xv. 18—20. " I will arise, and go... | |
 | James Beaven - Catechisms, English - 1841 - 170 pages
...which you are? God. What must you do in that state ? My duty. If you endeavour to do your duty in that state of life to which it has pleased God to call you, will you be always trying to get above your station ? No: I shall be content with what God appoints... | |
 | Henry Bristow Wilson - 1843 - 62 pages
...from it, and you will be content thenceforward with God's help to begin again to do your duty in that state of life to which it has pleased God to call you. NOTES. Page 7. THIS view of Jerome's will be fully seen from the following extracts ; Comment. ad Gal.... | |
 | Francis Edward Paget - 1843 - 344 pages
...mean that you are to shut yourself up, — to seclude yourself from discharging the duties of that state of life to which it has pleased God to call you, — to hinder your light from shining before men, — to fail to avail yourself of the advantages which... | |
 | John Ley - Penitents - 1845 - 138 pages
...never acted the hypocrite, pretending to be better than you are ? Have you never been discontented with the state of life, to which it has pleased God to call you ? Have you laboured honestly and truly to get your own living, and to do your duty in it ? Have you... | |
 | 1848 - 354 pages
...improvement in holy desires, good counsels, and just works, daily more earnestly doing your duty in that state of life to which it has pleased GOD to call you. This is St. Peter's advice to Christians involved in suffering of any kind, and especially, (which... | |
 | Thomas Vincent Fosbery - Hymns, English - 1850 - 416 pages
...who minister to your wants. Assume no functions, undertake no duties but those which belong to " that state of life to which it has pleased God to call you." In that state you will find, if you seek, abundant employment. Such engagements will supply the best... | |
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