But it is hard to read "Commander of the Faithful" without thinking of more recent events — and the author knows this well.
"The thing that really bothers me," he said, "is the creeping fundamentalism among Catholics who don't know their own faith and who are desperately trying to do the right thing and to be faithful believers, thinking that they have to sacrifice their reason to follow God.
SOME of the party faithful could be forgiven for thinking they were at the wrong gathering.
Volkswagen has kept the paperwork straight, though the faithful may be forgiven for thinking otherwise.
But it is neither clear how this would work in the case of nonlinear systems in classical mechanics, nor how this would work for chaotic models in biology, economics and other disciplines.[4] Additionally, there is another potential problem that arises from thinking about the faithful model assumption, namely what is the relationship or mapping between model and target system?
But I went on: "Yet equally, two hundred years later, the majority of ordinary people have remained as faithful as ever to the earlier ways of thinking".
Which means we may need to start thinking of today's Sexy Stenographer as not only diligent and faithful, but also shrewd.
Elizabeth wrote to Mary of the rumours, "I should ill fulfil the office of a faithful cousin or an affectionate friend if I did not ... tell you what all the world is thinking.
Even though the Fenway Faithful knew Bobby Valentine would be go over worse than Jar Jar Binks, a good number of idiots were hopefully anxious, thinking that the stink of the 2011 season could wash off with a little grit.
At moments, I was almost able to soothe myself by thinking of Grandpa John as the tailor, absent from his shop only because he was sick and frail, and Mom as a faithful brown mouse, sewing busily in the dark.
