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Indeed, in these days of turbines " Robin put down his cup rather emphatically, and said "Mphm." "Then you would organise a service of fast turbine steamers running all over the canal systems of the country?" "Exactly. Or let us say er launches," said Dubberley. "I must not overstate my case." "Travelling twenty miles an hour?" "Say fifteen, sir," said Dubberley magnanimously.
It would be hard to overstate the moral effect of that vast organised system of self-sacrifice and self-suppression. Three or four points may be noted in relation to these schools. One is, that in all classrooms and playgrounds, a master is always present.
E. Aves, "Report on Wage Boards and Industrial and Conciliation Acts of Australia and New Zealand" . Letter dated March 16, 1920. See pages 256-60, this chapter, for a further consideration of this question. Unless prior preparation is undertaken for the purpose in hand, it is probable that his conclusion does not overstate the difficulties much, if at all.
I think you will now allow that I did not overstate my case when I asserted that we have as strong grounds for believing that all the vast area of dry land, at present occupied by the chalk, was once at the bottom of the sea, as we have for any matter of history whatever; while there is no justification for any other belief.
'You were born a year after your father's return home, and when the other child was three years old. To say that I then found myself in an intolerable position would not be to overstate the case. If your father had lived, my difficulties would have been greater than they actually were, and it was during his lifetime and after your birth that I suffered most.
Scott with the utmost care, he preferring to have the contributors understate rather than overstate the results that have come from the labors of Tuskegee and its people. It has been the Principal's pleasure and privilege to examine and critically review the manuscript after its completion, and the volume is so praiseworthy that it is given his cordial approval.
It must never be forgotten that all Art has the aim or object of seeming and not of being; and that to understate is as bad as to overstate the modesty or the efflorescence of Nature. It is not possible to show within the scope of any Art the entire complexity and the myriad combining influences of Nature.
Hence the tendency in these productions, and in medical lectures generally, to overstate the efficacy of favorite methods of cure, and hence the premium offered for showy talkers rather than sagacious observers, for the men of adjectives rather than of nouns substantive in the more ambitious of these institutions.
"I cannot stand those Yankees they do exaggerate so terribly. One cannot depend on a word they say." I made no reply, for it struck me that Mr Johnson himself did at times, as he would have said, rather overstate facts. I made the remark to Perigal. "Well, boy, the boatswain is like most of us," he answered; "we don't see our own faults.
On the one hand there seems to have been a tendency, in his own time and since, to overstate his lack of education, and this partly, it may be, from a certain instinctive fascination which one finds in pointing to so dramatic a contrast as that between the sway which the great orator wielded over the minds of other men and the untrained vigor and illiterate spontaneity of his own mind.
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