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He preached long sermons to his family, cautioned them against frivolity, forbade music, tabued games, and constantly spoke of the tongue as "the unruly member." He, of course, was not aware of it, but he was teaching his children by antithesis. "When I meet Macaulay I always imagine I am in Holland," once said Sydney Smith. "Why so!" asked a friend.
The frivolity of the child cannot surely be placed to the young girl's account." "Well! you are now seventeen; three years instead of twelve. During those three years you have remained constantly and unchangeably cruel.
Many breathed their last without a friend to soothe their dying pillow; and few indeed were they who departed amid the lamentations and tears of their friends and kindred. Instead of sorrow and mourning, appeared indifference, frivolity and mirth; this being considered, especially by the females, as conducive to health.
As they stepped inside they heard a tall, thin-lipped man declaiming in a sharp, rasping voice: "You'll find out, neighbors, that my predictions will come true. They're coming true already. The spirit of frivolity and sin is running riot in this town. Wickedness is rampant. Staid and respectable citizens are losing their dignity. Good church members are becoming afflicted with this worldly spirit.
The duty of providing grain at low prices which was unavoidably necessary with such a proletariate living wholly from hand to mouth was treated with the most unscrupulous frivolity, and the fluctuations in the price of bread-corn were of a fabulous and incalculable description.
"Ah, there you are now!" he cried. "Well, little ones, I'll leave you together. I've wasted as much time as I can spare to-day to frivolity." "Yes, hurry back to work," said Arkwright. "The ship of state's wobbling badly through your neglect." Craig laughed, looking at Margaret. "Grant thinks that's a jest," said he. "Instead, it's the sober truth.
Frivolity of Outward Show Dear old Aunt Jane was making a visit in the early spring at the home of her newly-married niece, and spring clothes was the all-absorbing topic of conversation in the family. "I feel sure this hat's not broad enough in the brim, Aunt Jane," said the worldly niece, who wanted to appear just as bewitching to her young husband as she did in her going-away costume.
A ranchman in Argentina, a sort of relative, was looking after his affairs. Marguerite appeared satisfied, and in spite of her frivolity, adopted the air of a serious woman. "Money, money!" she exclaimed sententiously. "And yet there is no happiness without it!
They are intelligent and elevated, but contain hardly anything to our point to-night, unless it be this, that what is called Stupidity springs not at all from mere want of understanding, but from the fact that the free use of a man's understanding is hindered by some definite vice: Frivolity, Envy, Dissipation, Covetousness, all these darling vices of fallen man, these are at the bottom of what we name Stupidity.
In such circumstances the standard of female attainments was necessarily low; and it was more dangerous to be above that standard than to be beneath it. Extreme ignorance and frivolity were thought less unbecoming in a lady than the slightest tincture of pedantry.
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