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For this purpose, his abject misery, to which his state of health and his clothing bore witness, was amply sufficient to undervalue the character of the conspiracy and reduce its proportions in the eyes of the authorities. The role was well suited to the precarious position of the unprincipled gambler.
The man who has acquired skill so essential to his employer's interests is not likely to undervalue it or to be over anxious to simplify the labyrinth in which he shone as a competent guide.
The Palestinian congregation was left behind in its peaceful conservatism while the movement which it had inaugurated grew by leaps and bounds and swept outward into the tossing ocean of faiths and philosophies which extended from India to Gaul. To suppose that it could remain unchanged in such fellowship is to undervalue the assimilative tendencies in the social mind.
It follows that since men's eagerness for something new makes them undervalue whatever they have received, they do not esteem those from whom they have received it.
There are authors who still delight to undervalue the motives of this great national movement; according to whom the commercial classes rose chiefly, if not solely, from their resentment of the pecuniary losses inflicted on them by Godoy's alliance with the author of the "continental system"; the priesthood because Godoy had impoverished the church, and they feared that a Buonapartean government would pursue the same course to a much greater extent; the peasantry because their priests commanded them.
She then proceeded thus: "Why, you must know, sir, my young lady sent me to enquire after Molly Seagrim, and to see whether the wench wanted anything; to be sure, I did not care to go, methinks; but servants must do what they are ordered. How could you undervalue yourself so, Mr Jones? So my lady bid me go and carry her some linen, and other things. She is too good.
And shall we not be reunited in heaven by that still deeper tie? Surely if on earth Christ the Lord has loved some more than others; why should not we do the same in heaven, and yet love all? Do I thus seem to undervalue earthly bliss? No! I enhance it when I make it the sacrament of a higher union!
But as to my title to acquiesce in a rejection from her without an appeal to your interest, I will tell you plainly, without meaning to undervalue Miss Mac-Ivor's admitted beauty and accomplishments, that I would not take the hand of an angel, with an empire for her dowry, if her consent were extorted by the importunity of friends and guardians, and did not flow from her own free inclination.
"Monsieur has seen me reading them a hundred times, and knows I have not so many recreations as to undervalue those he provides." "I mean well; and, if you see that I mean well, and derive some little amusement from my efforts, why can we not be friends?" "A fatalist would say because we cannot."
Those who hold this conviction dare not conceal, or misrepresent, or undervalue, any one of those weighty and memorable sentences which are to be found in the Meditation of Marcus Aurelius.
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