No one can overlook its frequent tumidity and constant want of terseness.
The vigorous and skilful narrative, and a certain grandeur and weightiness of language, make us overlook it.
On the other hand, nothing but a want of candour or taste can lead any one to overlook the rare and great excellences of Gibbon's style.
Modern theological schools of a Calvinistic bias have tended to overlook the conception of the nature of God as essential or substantive Love, and to consider love only as manifested in redemption.
Christianity does notoverlook these, but it comes first with all-inclusive principles.
Constantine, with all the Roman world at his feet, and all its responsibilities weighing on his mind, was far too able a man to overlook the great need of the day--a more conveniently placed administrative and military centre for his empire.
At one's feet, apparently, lies the placid surface of Donner Lake, its pure blue giving one a premonitory foretaste of the richer blues that await him at Tahoe, while beyond are the mountains that overlook the Great Basin of Nevada.
I am just able to admire those literal touches of observation and description, which persons of loftier pretensions overlook and despise.
If he failed to give Shelley his full dues, he did not overlook his exquisite lyrical inspiration.
We should think the writer could not possibly read the manuscript after he has once written it, or overlook the press.
They discern no beauties but what are concealed from superficial eyes, andoverlook all that are obvious to the vulgar part of mankind.
Nor can we overlook the proclivity of all endemic diseases to extraordinary manifestations of virulence in insular nations not previously protected by gradual inoculation.
When a sensible man once observes this in a woman, he must have a very great or a very little spirit to overlook it.
Any man whose name appeared on the black list which he was supposed to have sponsored would overlook no opportunity to retaliate in kind.
But he can't overlookany Three Bar calves on his circle while I'm running the layout.
Remembering the compulsion to which she had been subjected, she felt but little disposed to yield to her father-in-law's wishes, and the bitter thought of it rising within her made her overlook the real justice of what he said.
Berkow's anger was breaking forth, but the habit of indulgence towards his son made him overlook this great offence.
It is quite wonderful to me, how educated men can so totally overlook what I have so plainly and so often written.
This time the sergeants did not overlook the lance corporal in the distribution of coffee and rations.
She seated herself upon a bank of greensward where she could overlookthe smooth blue lake, and Baron Albrecht threw himself upon the ground at her feet, looking rather at her than at the water.
It was too evident that Erna and Albrecht had greatly influenced each other for even the most careless observer to overlook it, and no one could tell where this change of character would end.
Secondly, if we really needed a mental disposition for each memory picture, in addition to the physiological disposition of the brain cells, can we overlook that exactly the same thing would then be necessary for every perception also?
They may have turned the immoral man into a moral man, the skeptic into a believer, but the physician cannot overlook that the result may be a moral man with a crippled nervous system, a believer with psychasthenic symptoms.
It would be short-sighted to overlook the serious obstacles which stand in the way.
I may overlook and yet include within my content of consciousness most various parts of my surroundings; and yet the neglected is not less in consciousness itself than the attended.
Yet it would be narrow to overlook that in neurasthenia, too, suggestion has to be only a part of the psychical treatment.
Yet no one can overlook that some of the methods which we described have in themselves the tendency to reënforce the mental suggestibility.
Scientific medicine should take hold of psychotherapeutics now or a most deplorable disorganization will set in, the symptoms of which no one ought to overlook to-day.
We must not overlook other crimes far more heinous, and consider the guilty blood shed by them as the sole ground of their punishment.
They who object to the Messianic interpretation on the ground that, at the time of Christ, the Moabites had disappeared from the stage of history, overlook the circumstance, that the Moabites here, as well as in Is.
Work must therefore be reduced to the necessities, and old Martens willoverlook everything.
I have not yet been there, and have only seen the castle from afar, but it seems to overlook the whole vicinity.
Among the figures in the background, we must not overlook a gentleman emphatically called the "Finisher of the law," who sedately smokes his best Virginia upon the gallows.
I willingly overlook what is objectionable in expression and action, for the sake of the high gratification which a good comedy yields; and so do others.
Though the primary cause of this hostility may be traced up to the depravity of our nature, yet we ought not to overlook the secondary causes which may have contributed to its growth and manifestation.
Miss Dorothy, 'you are too scrupulous, dear sister; the Almighty is sure to overlook it.
But, Sir, I hope in the ardour of your zeal against the stage, you will not overlook the distinction which the wisest and best of men have made between the use and the abuse of a thing.
If it were for that alone, I would overlook Crevel.
You call that American piracy, and you overlook the piracy on the other side.
He did not intend to overlook the educated class, but he saw clearly how small a part of the community it was, and he refused to make his appeal to it exclusively or even chiefly.
From this mound we could overlook the tops of the trees and view the prairie on each side of the river as far as our vision could extend, and the scenery was truly delightful.
In the end I was forced to overlook this drawback and, finding a sort of natural bathtub among the blazing rocks, fell upon what after all proved to be a porkless feast.
He who would understand the Mexican, descendant of the Aztecs, must not overlook a certain apathetic indifference to death, and a playful manner with its remains.
We may be said to fall into illusion here in so far as we overlook the exact quality of the impression actually made on the eye.
Yet the fact of our instantly recognizing a familiar object in spite of these fluctuations of appearance, proves that we are able to overlook a very considerable amount of diversity when a certain amount of likeness is present.
This coalescence of two sensations is so far erroneous since it makes us overlook the existence of two distinct external agencies acting on different parts of the sensitive surface of the body.
In thus instantly recognizing him as a Hindoo, we must, it is plain, attend to the points of similarity, and overlook for the instant the points of dissimilarity.
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