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Unfortunately for the fishmongers of London, the doree resides only in those seas; for, could any of this company but convey one to the temple of luxury under the Piazza, where Macklin the high-priest daily serves up his rich offerings to that goddess, great would be the reward of that fishmonger, in blessings poured down upon him from the goddess, as great would his merit be towards the high-priest, who could never be thought to overrate such valuable incense.
As a young girl, comparing herself with her mother, she feared that she would always be "quite homely." Her glass and the attentions of men had gradually shown her the pleasant truth. She did not, however, even now, overrate her beauty greatly. But her character had been modified to advantage in those schoolgirl days, when, with bitter tears, she admitted to herself that she was not pretty.
When the Duke found that his arguments and his remonstrances were of no avail, he withdrew from the Congress altogether and left the members of the Holy Alliance to take on themselves the full responsibility of their own policy. Now it would be hardly possible to overrate the importance of the step thus taken by England at a great crisis in the public affairs of Europe.
'Thank you; but I feel as if I couldn't leave him to anybody but myself. He seems so weak now; a little neglect might kill him. 'Pardon me, Miss Marston; you overrate the danger. Depend upon it, your respected parent will be quite a different man in a week, though it may be a month or more before he is fully recovered. You don't know what a constitution he has.
"Don't you think men overrate the necessity for humoring everybody's nonsense, till they get despised by the very fools they humor?" said Lydgate, moving to Mr. Farebrother's side, and looking rather absently at the insects ranged in fine gradation, with names subscribed in exquisite writing.
What is my poor love to the eternity of happiness you trade it for?" A proud heat flushed her face. "You know you do not speak truly. I do not deserve the taunt." The same curious smile glimmered over his mouth. He was silent for a moment. "I overrate your sacrifice: it costs you little to say, like the old Pharisee, 'Stand by, I am holier than thou! You never loved me, Theodora.
His manner was so authoritative that Laura wrote with a trembling hand: "The bearer is a very dear friend of aunt's. How brave and noble a man he is you can learn from the fact that he comes to your aid now. In deepest sympathy and love, "Good-by, my dear, kind friend," said Haldane cheerily to Mrs. Arnot while Laura was writing; "you overrate the danger.
On the other hand I hugged the axiom that in all conflicts it is just as fatal to underrate the difficulties of your enemy as to overrate your own. Their chief one and it multiplied a thousandfold the excitement of the contest was, I felt sure, the fear of striking in error; of using a sledge-hammer to break a nut.
"What! in spite of that wonderful speech of his on coming of age?" "Pooh! that is now understood to have been but a bad joke on the new ideas, and their organs, including 'The Londoner. But if Kenelm does come into the House, it will not be on your side of the question; and unless I greatly overrate his abilities which very likely I do he will not be a rival to despise.
"Is it not very hard to feel one's self shut out from the main stream of the work of the world when one's heart is burning?" "I think you overrate the satisfaction." "You can't tell! You are contented with that sort of home peaceful sunshine that I know suffices many. Even intellectual as you are, you can't tell what it is to feel power within, to strain at the leash, and see others in the race."
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