I have said above that we seem to see passing from Montaigne to Shakspere a vibration of style as well as of thought; and it would be difficult to overstate the importance of such an influence.
And it would be easy to overstate that thesis in such a way as to make it untrue.
It must never be forgotten that all Art has the aim or object of seeming and not of being; and that to understate is as bad as to overstate the modesty or the efflorescence of Nature.
It would be hard to overstate the moral effect of that vast organised system of self-sacrifice and self-suppression.
Untidiness amounts to a national vice in Ireland, and, though one may overstate its gravity, the secondary schools could and should do much more to remedy this national defect than they are at present doing.
Hale does not overstate the consequences when he says: "Most of the countries clustering about the Caribbean have sunk into deeper and deeper mires of misrule, unmatched for profligacy and violence anywhere on earth.
Vanderlip did not overstate the danger when he wrote: "I believe it is possible that there may be let loose in Europe forces that will be more terribly destructive than have been the forces of the Great War.
It would be hard to overstate the importance of this need.
Any one who has caught but a glimpse of the world's Walpurgis Night, as revealed in Mythology and Folklore, must agree that this courteous devil did not overstate the case.
Heroes before Falstaff were liable to overstate their foes in buckram.
It is hard to overstatethe debt we owe to the men and women of genius.
It would be hard to overstate the time and talent wasted in the study of this so-called science.
Monsieur de Garnache," said she, with a mock coldness that was a faint echo of his own recent manner, "you overstate the case.
Still, Herndon probably did notoverstate the case.
It is impossible tooverstate the bright, the exhilarating impression of these tones.
There is no fear of overstating the aggregate bad effects of over-indulgence in liquor--it is beyond the power of words or figures to overstate it.
I do not think a greater disservice could be done to a man of science, than to overstate his claims: such overstatement is sure to recoil to the disadvantage of him in whose interest it is made.
I do not think that any holder of the Evolution hypothesis would say that I overstate or overstrain it in any way.
Because of the underlying pricing methods, officially reported data on total industrial production in value terms overstate the actual rate of growth attained.
Based on physical output and labor data, Western observers believe that the published data overstate the actual advance achieved.
It would be impossible to overstate what he has done.
It would be impossible to overstate the services rendered to the cause of decency and honesty by Messrs.
As for the men under me in executive office, I could not overstate the debt of gratitude I owe them.
It would be hard to overstate the value of the service rendered in all these cases by such cabinet officers as Moody and Bonaparte, and their outside assistants of the stamp of Frank Kellogg.
It is impossible to overstate the significance, the reality, of the relation of self as knower to things when it is thought of as a moral relation, a deliberate and responsible undertaking of a self.
It would be hard tooverstate the difficulty of the work which the will of Girard has devolved upon the Directors and teachers of Girard College.
We can scarcely overstate the bad effect of this first mistake.
A later debate--on July 31st--showed that his strong personal feeling for Mr. Birrell had moved him rather to overstatethan to belittle his advisory responsibility.
Of course, many will overstate the case of American greed.
As there has been a tendency to overstate the miracle feature in the selection of the canon, so has there been a tendency to overstate the part played by the authoritative councils of the church.
Zealous Christian teachers may sometimes overstate the influence which the Bible exercised over later Roman law.
It would be easy, however, to overstate Jesus's relation to work.
The general conclusions they reached are forcibly presented in the words of Pressensé: It would be difficult to overstate the importance of Greek philosophy when viewed as a preparation to Christianity.
If we regard philosophy as a preparation for Christianity, instead of seeking in it a substitute for the Gospel, we shall not need to overstate its grandeur in order to estimate its real value.
If we regard this sublime philosophy as a preparation for Christianity instead of seeking in it a substitute for the Gospel, we shall not need to overstate its grandeur in order to estimate its real value.
But these figures overstate the loss to the United Kingdom and understate the gain to France; for a large part of the loans made by both these countries has been to Russia and cannot, by any stretch of imagination, be considered good.
