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'It is a pity that the old gentleman is so vain, a highly-placed person once said to me. I answered that if he or I had done all that General Booth has done, we might be pardoned a little vanity. In truth, however, the charge is mistaken, for at bottom I believe him to be a very humble-minded man, and one who does not in the least overrate himself.
Aunt Isobel was about to reply, but I interrupted her. "Don't think me humble-minded, Aunt Isobel, for I'm not. Sometimes I feel inclined to think that ill-tempered people have more sense of justice and of the strict rights and wrongs of things at least if they are not very bad," I interpolated, thinking of Mr.
The Padre had a wholesome fear of Esteban Larralde, and an exaggerated estimation of that schemer's ability. He was a humble-minded old man, and ever hesitated to pit his own brain against that of another.
But, now, from the shepherd boy and from his valley and his song, let us go on without any more poetry or parable to look our own selves full in the face and to ask our own hearts whether they are the hearts of really humble-minded and New Testament men or no. Dr. Newman, "that subtle, devout man," as Dr.
Who would take this hog into his arms and comfort him, reward him for his work well done, and show him the meaning of his sacrifice? Perhaps some glimpse of all this was in the thoughts of our humble-minded Jurgis, as he turned to go on with the rest of the party, and muttered: "Dieve but I'm glad I'm not a hog!"
But God, who never forgets His fallen creatures, came to this man's help when the tide with him was at its lowest ebb. A humble-minded city missionary was sent to him. He was the means of bringing him to Jesus.
When a scamp loves a good girl, let him thank the devil that love is blind." Here was Aunt Gainor sentimental, and clever too. I shook my head sadly, being, as a man should be, humble-minded as to women. She said next she would see my father at once, and I must come at eight and bring Mr. McLane. Darthea would be with her, and a friend or two.
Carlyle well said that 'any road, this simple Entepfuhl road, will lead you to the end of the world, and was it not the quaint and humble-minded Thoreau who expressed himself in somewhat the same way: "'If with Fancy unfurled, You leave your abode, You may go round the world, By the Marlboro road." The doctor rose from the table and grasped Mr. Westmore's hand.
He was conscious of feeling that the situation did not admit of improvement, for though, when he measured himself with Selma, Babcock was humble-minded, a cheerful and uncritical optimism was the ruling characteristic of his temperament. With health, business fortune, and love all on his side, it was natural to him to regard his lot with complacency.
He may be almost regarded as the prime minister of the islands, in addition to which he has started an extensive boat-building business and a considerable trade in cocoa-nuts, etc., with the numerous islands of the Java Sea; also a saw-mill, and a forge, and a Sunday-school in which last the pretty, humble-minded Winnie lends most efficient aid.
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