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There is a homogeneity and consistency to the whole which lead us to speak of scripture as being a single story, not many revelations. The Bible is the exhaustless book. It may sometimes prove exhausting to its light-minded readers, but it never exhausts itself. "It is the wonder of the Bible," observes Dr.
Supposing he has written a "light-minded fiction," as you call it, where's the harm of it? 'With the early training you received together with me, Solomon, I wonder you can ask! You know very well what would have been thought of reading, to say nothing of writing, a novel in our young days.
If they prophesied concerning his future, it is not likely that they spoke of literary fame. They thought him just easy-going and light-minded. True, they noticed that he often carried a book under his arm a history, a volume of Dickens, or the tales of Poe. He read more than any one guessed. At night, propped up in bed a habit continued until his death he was likely to read until a late hour.
I'm never really engaged; that is, hardly ever." "Then there is a terrible misapprehension at large!" "Oh, I'm always misapprehended. Even Bernie misapprehends me; he thinks I'm frivolous and light-minded, but I'm not. I'm really very serious; I'm I'm almost morose." He laughed at her. "You don't mean to deny you have a bewildering train of admirers?" "Perhaps, but I don't like to think of them.
Judith was not at all discomposed by her light-minded raillery. "I should think it would be a very good thing for you to try, Miss Pat," she said sedately. "Clothes go out of fashion so dreadfully soon nowadays and the singing exercises will last most of your life."
With a light-minded carelessness, he did but gaze at himself in his new dignity, and in the ill-timed desire to enjoy his crown, he forgot the more pressing duty of securing it on his head. But greatly as men had erred in their opinion of him, Frederick himself had not less miscalculated his foreign resources.
"The King, Charles X., did not recognize in his daughter-in-law nearly the solidity that she had. He believed her to be light-minded, and only looked upon her as a great child, though he loved her much and her gaiety pleased him beyond measure, being himself of a gay nature. You may have heard that one day Madame rode in an omnibus. That is not correct.
"But it is a bad thing altogether to be light-minded," retorted the queen, who was beginning to lose her temper. This last answer quite discomfited his Majesty, who turned on his heel, and betook himself to his counting-house again. But he was not half-way towards it, when the voice of his queen overtook him.
He hates information; and he himself would not stay in this dull garrison town any longer than he was obliged to. There was to be a military display that day in honor of the Governor. "Why," I asked the bright and light-minded colored boy who sold papers on the morning train, "don't you stay in the city and see it?" "Pho," said he, with contempt, "I'm sick of 'em.
"Oh, one ought never, never to leave one's own country! A light-minded and cynical English gentleman told me that I should frequently be called upon to read hymns and recite verses of Scripture at family dinners in Edinburgh, and I hope I am always prepared to do that; but nobody warned me that I should have to evolve epigrammatic sentiments on the spur of the moment."
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