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It was in this manner that he disclosed his inmost thoughts to his family by those vivid pictures of his political position, which, at the present day, will probably appear neither false nor over-coloured: and yet the gentle Josephine, always occupied with the task of restraining and calming him, often gave him to understand "that, along with the consciousness of his superior genius, he never seemed to possess sufficient consciousness of his own power: that, like all jealous characters, he incessantly required fresh proofs of its existence.
Perhaps some English boat would take us; for I can hardly believe that they have been scared from the water." "Scared! Ha ha!" laughed the Dutchman. "No, no! The picture I have painted is perhaps a little over-coloured.
It lacks much of the material of war, is feeble in transportation, the animals being much reduced, and the men are poorly provided with clothes. This description was by no means over-coloured. As a record of military activity the campaign of the spring and summer of 1862 has few parallels.
Macaulay is contrasting, in his customary vein of overwrought and over-coloured detail, the evils of arbitrary government with those of a debased currency: "The misgovernment of Charles and James, gross as it had been, had not prevented the common business of life from going steadily and prosperously on.
The following summary of her character by the clever, caustic, but little scrupulous De Retz, graphic as it is, and based on a certain amount of truth, must not be unhesitatingly accepted, it being over-coloured by wilful exaggeration: "I have never seen anyone else," says he, "in whom vivacity so far usurped the place of judgment.
One, and all but her waist was huge, wore a bodice of transparent gauze; another, also of middle years, had crowned her hard over-coloured face with a large gentian-blue hat turned up in front with a brass buckle. Another was in pink silk and heavily powdered.
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