No geologist will feel any difficulty in such cases as Great Britain having been formerly united to Europe, and consequently possessing the same quadrupeds.
And as they had little influence, at least of a favourable sort, either on philosophy or polite literature, we are not to overrate their importance in the history of the intellectual progress of mankind.
Heinsius observes that we must consider this poem as the most valuable record of German antiquity, but that to overrate its merit, as some have been inclined to do, can be of no advantage.
I can truly say that I wish no one to overrate me; undeserved regard could give me no pleasure; nor will I consent to practise charlatanism, either in friendship or anything else.
I was pleased to find, that, even at so early an age, I did not overrate those I valued.
If the blessings of our political and social condition have not been too highly estimated, we cannot well overrate the responsibility and duty which they impose upon us.
While the politicians of his own time despised his views, the politicians of our time seem inclined to overrate them.
Considering the warm feelings of attachment which the Scotch entertained for their chiefs, it is difficult to overrate the consequences of this barbarous murder, in strengthening a class it was hoped to intimidate.
I think you overrate his magnanimity; I never saw him at all tender to anyone whose gloves were not beyond suspicion.
It is not until refreshed by a completed toilette--and who can overrate the joy of a bath after a journey?
In all free governments, especially, it is the habit to overrate the dramatis personae of the hour.
When, in the following pages, I am found treating with all solemnity matters of apparently trivial detail, I beg the reader to believe that very possibly I do not in my heart overrate their importance.
The intelligent novice, standing between these extremes, tends, as a rule, to overrate the efficacy of theoretical instruction, and to expect of analytic criticism more than it has to give.
His native favorites he enjoys as no Englishman or German could, but he does not overrate them.
Nor does he overrate Voltaire, whom he calls "the Frenchman par excellence," and of whom he is proud as the literary sovereign of his age.
I must now group together a number of short notes on sonnets: I think Blanco White's sonnet difficult to overrate in thought--probably in this respect unsurpassable, but easy to overrate as regards its workmanship.
That impatience, while it stimulates us to surpass preceding generations, disposes us to overrate their happiness.
To govern mankind, one must not overrate them: and to please an audience, as a speaker, one must not overvalue it.
Young people are very apt to overrate both men and things, from not being enough acquainted with them.
Those who are immersed in these studies are very apt to overrate their importance and the part which diplomacy and statesmanship have borne in the great movement of human affairs.
It is always the temptation of those who are dealing with manuscript materials to overrate the small personal details which they bring to light, and to give them much more than their due space in their narrative.
It would be difficult, indeed, to overrate the importance of such an establishment, properly conducted.
The chronicler does not usually overrate the northern tribes.
Don't overrate me; your disillusion will be the more painful.
They grossly overrate the value of money, and they exaggerate the terrors of being without it.
We must not overrate the value of this feminine worldliness in judging the Germans.
Indeed, our delight in our own humour has tempted us to overrate both its literary value and its corrective qualities.
It is possible to overrate the superlative merits of insipidity as a mental and moral force in the development of youth.
So greatly did men overrate political conditions; so far were they from appreciating those economic conditions which are so much more deep-seated and essential.
I myself have the impression that public opinion tends to overrate the practical help rendered by individual Christians.
It is important for many reasons not to overrate the positive things the Churches did and said.
Even if she did notoverrate herself, such self-estimate implied no little boldness in expression.
If we overrate our abilities, we attempt more than we can accomplish; if we underrate our abilities we fail to accomplish much that we attempt.
Still, dreadful as these evils were, it is possible for us, in the conceptions which we form, to overrate the extent of them.
He was disposed to overrate the excellence of all that he once took to his heart.
You overrate my abilities, Charles; but not, I hope, the goodness of an affectionate heart that loves you all.
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