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Updated: May 19, 2025
But I am not underrating it when I say, 'Let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith, and the 'proportion of faith' has been violated, and the perspective and completeness of Christian truth, and of Christ's gifts, have been, alas! to a very large extent distorted because Christian people, trained in what we call the evangelical school, have laid far too little emphasis on the fact that the essential gift of Christ to His people is not pardon, nor acceptance, nor justification, but life; and that forgiveness, and altered relationship to God, and assurance of acceptance with Him, are all preliminaries.
Continuing his discourse, Van der Kemp told a great deal more about the products of these prolific islands with considerable enthusiasm as one who somewhat resented the underrating of his native land. "Were you born in this region, Van der Kemp?" asked Nigel, during a brief pause. "I was in Java. My father, as my name tells, was of Dutch descent. My mother was Irish. Both are dead." He stopped.
The column therefore advanced with good spirits, having full rations, confiding in their new leader, and rather underrating than dreading an enemy who attacked them with stones instead of bullets.
Self-educated men, as they are called, deprived of the side light thrown on a particular subject by instruction in cognate matters, are narrow and dogmatic, and, with an uneasy consciousness of ignorance, soothe their own vanity by underrating the studies of others.
And, since there always seems to be in such imperialists a sense of political pathos the lacrymae rerum politicarum he began to have pessimistic views of the permanence of the connection: "I am very far from underrating the value to Great Britain of her extensive and rapidly improving North American possessions, but I cannot conceal from myself the fact that they are maintained to her at no light cost, and at no trifling risk.
Of the actual nature of its philosophical and technical limitations it is, I suppose, unnecessary to speak. They all resolve themselves into one fault common in the modern world, and certainly characteristic of historians much more learned and pretentious than Dickens. That fault consists simply in ignoring or underrating the variety of strange evils and unique dangers in the world.
His judgment was not warped by latent female jealousies, and he avoided the error into which the housekeeper had fallen, self-deluded the error of underrating the impression on Noel Vanstone that Magdalen had produced.
But now it is believed that they were built by natives. I maintain that the men who could erect piles like that' and he showed me a picture 'were something more than petty chiefs. Presently the object of this conversation appeared. Mr Wardlaw thought that we were underrating the capacity of the native. This opinion was natural enough in a schoolmaster, but not in the precise form Wardlaw put it.
You should just see the sights I have seen, then you would understand why for some time the improvement of the material condition of the masses must be the great problem. Of course, you won't suspect me of underrating the moral and religious considerations." Esther smiled almost Imperceptibly.
Favorinus reproached him with overestimating the versatility of the Roman genius, like his friend Fronto, and underrating the Hellenic intellect.
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