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Wherever and whenever I had an opportunity of addressing them on that subject, they assured me that they were ever ready most zealously to assist in the promotion of their mental and social improvement, and they joyfully hailed every opportunity presented to them of enriching their minds by pure and wholesome knowledge. 'An Israelite, they said, 'cannot underrate the value of knowledge.
It's the cant of the day to underrate the House of Commons, and the work which it performs; don't you suffer yourself to join in the chorus of the simpletons. Your time cannot be better employed than in endeavouring to improve the body politic. 'I am obliged to you. I hope you are feeling better than when I saw you last. A gleam came into his eyes, fading as quickly as it came.
ALVA. Prince, we both Miscalculate but still in opposite ways. You, for example, overrate your age By twenty years, whilst on the other band, I, by as many, underrate it CARLOS. Well ALVA. And this suggests the thought, how many nights Beside this lovely Lusitanian bride Your mother would the king right gladly give To buy an arm like this, to aid his crown.
Another in New Hampshire Gazette, no. 104. Gentleman's Magazine, 1758, p. 498. Malartic, Journal du Régiment de Béarn. Lévis, Journal de la Guerre en Canada. The French notices of the affair are few and brief. They admit a defeat, but exaggerate the force and the losses of the English, and underrate their own. The petty victory over Marin was followed by a more substantial success.
One is therefore entitled to assume that it cannot be demolished; on the contrary, it could easily be shown that the foregoing figures very considerably underrate the actual number of widows and orphans who must be made by alcohol in this country every year.
I do not wish for a moment to underrate the value of work which has different qualities; but I do think that Fitzjames's merits as a solid inquirer may be overlooked by readers who judge a writer by the brilliance of his pictures and the neatness of his theories. The book covers a very large field. A brief indication of its general plan will show how many topics are more or less treated.
These great and obvious advantages of the new tariff, the opponents of Ministers, and especially their reckless and discreditable allies called the "Anti-corn-law League," see as plainly as we do; but their anxious aim is to conceal these advantages as much as possible from public view; and for this purpose they never willingly make any allusion to the tariff, or if forced to do so, underrate its value, or grossly misrepresent its operation.
We must not underrate the enemy. He is powerful and cunning and cruel and ruthless. He will stop at nothing that gives him a chance to kill and to destroy. He has trained his people to believe that their highest perfection is achieved by waging war. For many years he has prepared for this very conflict planning, and plotting, and training, arming, and fighting. We have already tasted defeat.
He is for kingcraft to mask his viziercraft and save him the labour of patiently attempting oratory and persuasion, which accomplishment he does not possess: it is not in iron. We think the more precious metal will beat him when the broader conflict comes. But such an adversary is not to be underrated. I do not underrate him: and certainly not he me.
These are noble words, because words of faith worthy of the Roman, Varro to whom his fellow-citizens presented a public tribute of gratitude because "he had not despaired of his country in a dark and troubled time." It can hardly be supposed that I underrate the horrors of war.
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