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I was merely asserting my right to speak of certain things which, if one chose to exaggerate their importance by a too narrow and exclusive consideration of them, I might conceivably be thought to have betrayed. I drew a sheet of paper towards me, and formally made out my claim. It occupied not more than a dozen lines, and its nature has already been sufficiently indicated.
It is impossible to exaggerate the misery of the obedient provinces at this epoch. The insane attempt of the King of Spain, with such utterly inadequate machinery, to conquer the world has been sufficiently dilated upon. The Spanish and Italian and Walloon soldiers were starving in Brabant and Flanders in order that Spanish gold might be poured into the bottomless pit of the Holy League in France.
I do not, I dare not, exaggerate. Indeed, a lady of a certain age could hardly feel more abashed at the sudden production of her baptismal certificate than I a man, a matter-of-fact man, a plain, hard-headed, unimaginative man of business do, at this confession.
On the other hand, I had not the slightest suspicion that they would so exaggerate my meaning when I was remarking on the worth of science, how it "tells," and how it causes the meagre stripling to play fast and loose with huge, brawny ruffians no cowards, mark you and hairy as to their chests. But the weeds at Hatton's Club were fascinated by my homilies on science.
You exaggerate the defects of the Christian, and the attractions of your daughter." Her father drew her graceful head to him, and nestled it upon his breast. "No, my child, no, I do not exaggerate your beauty. It is not I alone, but all Vienna, that is in raptures with your incomparable loveliness." "Hush, dear father! Would you see me vain and heartless?"
Thus adjured, however difficult the point to which she brought him, the sculptor was not a man to swerve aside from the simple truth. "Miriam," replied he, "you exaggerate the impression made upon my mind; but it has been painful, and somewhat of the character which you suppose." "I knew it," said Miriam, mournfully, and with no resentment.
Cuchares died in the Havana, and left no provision for his family. There is a curious naivete in the play-bill of a bull-fight, the only conscientious public document I have seen in Spain. You know how we of Northern blood exaggerate the attractions of all sorts of shows, trusting to the magnanimity of the audience. "He warn't nothing like so little as that," confesses Mr.
I've been down since, by daylight, and so have some of the boys, looking into that crevice. But we gave it up, finally." Then Casey, because he liked a joke even when it was on himself, told the foreman and his men what had happened to him. He did not exaggerate the mishap; the truth was sufficiently wild. They whooped with glee.
Miot de Melito speaks of them as "Bourrienne and other subordinate scoundrels," and, indeed, Miot de Melito does not exaggerate in his estimate of them. Fouché says that Bourrienne kept him advised of all Napoleon's movements for 25,000 francs per month, besides being both partner and patron in the house of Coulon Brothers, cavalry equipment providers, who failed for £120,000.
"'Ah, dear me, I feared it long since; but then, John, consider she is very handsome very much admired and "'That makes it all the heavier, my dear aunt the prouder her present position, the more severely will she feel the reverse. "'Oh, but surely, John, your fears must exaggerate the danger. "'Nothing of the kind I have not words to tell you
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