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Lady Martin has spoken to me of the poet's attitude on the occasion of this performance as being full of generous sympathy for those who were working with him, as well as of the natural anxiety of a young author for his own success. She also remains convinced that this sympathy led him rather to over-than to under-rate the support he received. Macready always read the new plays.
"No no harm perhaps but still you tease me.... I'm a fool to mind.... But then I am a fool every one knows it." All the time he was looking with his pathetic eyes and his pale face at Vera. Vera said again, very low, almost in a whisper: "Uncle Alexei... please." "But really, Nicholas," Semyonov went on, "you under-rate yourself. You do indeed. Nobody thinks you a fool.
Not that I am by any means disposed to under-rate the importance of the petitions which may have been sent home by opponents of the measure.
But though the external effects may vary, the internal principle is the same; a disposition in each individual to make self the grand center and end of his desires and enjoyments; to over-rate his own merits and importance, and of course to magnify his claims on others, and in return to under-rate their's on him; a disposition to undervalue the advantages, and over-state the disadvantages, of his condition in life.
On the other hand, if we dislike a man, if we are led to regard him as an enemy, and to harbor feelings of resentment towards him, we look on what he says and does with distrust; we suspect his motives; we under-rate his talents, and are pleased to have an excuse for differing from him in opinion. We see proofs of this power of feeling and affection over the judgment on every hand.
He does not understand Christianity because he will not understand the paradox of Christianity; that we can only really understand all myths when we know that one of them is true. I do not under-rate him for this anti-paradoxical temper; I concede that much of his finest and keenest work in the way of intellectual purification would have been difficult or impossible without it.
"No," said Kent; but it is always a mistake to under-rate an enemy's caliber even that of his small arms. For a fortnight the newspapers in the territory tributary to the road had been full of strike talk, and Hildreth had said his say, deprecating the threatened appeal to force as fearlessly as he condemned the mismanagement which was provoking it.
It must, of course, be remembered that the influences of both breed and nurture are alike influential on the fate of the individual. The influence of nurture is so obvious that few are likely to under-rate it. The influence of breed, however, is less obvious, and we may still meet with persons so ill informed, and perhaps so prejudiced, as to deny it altogether.
Money was a tool. He did not over-rate it, nor under-rate it. He used it to buy what he wanted. "The weirdest form of dissipation I ever heard," said Mr. Crockett, holding up Dick's account for the year. "Sixteen thousand for education, all itemized, including railroad fares, porters' tips, and shot-gun cartridges for his teachers." "He passed the examinations just the same," quoth Mr. Slocum.
From the moment men saw him and desired him the days of his freedom were limited; but great should be the battle before he was subdued! There was no thought of submission in Alcatraz at this moment, though never for an instant did he under-rate the power of man.
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