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As for the community at large, their shortcoming lies in the fact that most of them would seek for a specialist in mumps in case that painful but transitory infliction were to come upon them, and in their underrating of the family physician. This leads to the subject of the use of natural and artificial serum in the treatment of disease.
"Sit well back," said he, as we rattled away up New Broad Street. "We shall be passing our gay deceiver presently in fact, there he is, a living, walking illustration of the folly of underrating the intelligence of one's adversary." At Clifford's Inn Passage we dismissed the cab, and, retiring into the shadow of the dark, narrow alley, kept an eye on the gate of Inner Temple Lane.
He was moved by flashes of insight, and was capable of long-sustained flights of vehement effort; but his will-power was nourished entirely by those moments of intense prevision, which showed him a course, and all the stages of it. The mistakes he made, and they were many and grievous, were mostly due to overshooting his mark, sometimes to underrating it.
What I would rather see is an elasticity, a recklessness, a prodigal trying of experiments, a discontented underrating of past traditions, than a meek acquiescence in their supremacy. What is our present condition? We have few poets of the first rank, few essayists or reflective writers, few dramatists, few biographers.
She did not endeavor to qualify the offence of which her son had been guilty. She was far from underrating the indignity to which Stevens had been subjected; but the offender was her son her only son in spite of all his faults, follies, and imperfections, the apple of her eye the only being for whom she cared to live!
The second chapter considers liberty of thought and discussion, and if many may think that Mill unduly minimized the functions of society, underrating its claims as against the individual, few will deny the justice of the chief arguments or question the general soundness of his conclusions.
We shall sight the British ships soon after daybreak, and by that time those fellows will be fifty miles behind us." "I have as much confidence in the Aurania's speed as you have, Captain Frazer," replied Michael, "but I'm afraid you are underrating the enemy's strength.
However, like the rest of the world, I still go on underrating men of gold and glorifying men of mica. Commonplace human nature cannot rise above that. True knowledge of the nature of silver mining came fast enough. We went out "prospecting" with Mr. Ballou.
To Palmer, viewing them in the light of the past, the Cedars of Lebanon were a poem, but to Burton a curious mixture of the romantic and the prosaic with his invariable habit of underrating famous objects, they were "a wretched collection of scraggy Christmas trees."
While the North looked upon the South as a set of aristocratic blusterers, their affluence and wealth having made them effeminate; a nation of weaklings, who could not stand the fatigues and hardships of a campaign. Neither understood the other, overrating themselves and underrating the strength of their antagonists.
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