Sir William--a man not accustomed tounderrate difficulties--was afraid it was going to be troublesome.
I don't want to alarm you, but I think you as well as our young friend Martin, are inclined to underrate the emotional capacity of human nature.
It was long customary in England to underratethis disaffection by ascribing it to very transitory causes.
Far be it from me to underrate the power of any good influence; but you have only to suggest that asthma shall be treated by spiritual influence, and you will find that the good folks regard you as a lunatic or as a profane person.
The English did not overrate the bravery of their troops or the abilities of their generals, but they did underrate the difficulties in conquering a population scattered over a vast extent of territory.
Contemplative men of studious habits and a philosophical cast of mind are apt to underrate the genius which sways a popular assembly.
They bowed as we came up, and Hodson, bowing, ordered the driver to move on.
The risk is that he may seem to underrate the gravity of a great constitutional change in the introduction of a federal element.
The risk is that he may seem tounderrate the gravity of a great constitutional change, in the introduction of a federal element.
He may perhaps be thought to underrate the peculiarities of language in the Old and New Testament, as if they were merely such as passed current among the contemporary Greeks.
Where authorities are so few, it is surely dangerous to underrate their value: but the question with regard to Josephus is a double one.
My young reader, do not imagine that I have any desire to underrate the merits of the scientific botanist.
You northern gentlemen have a sort of pedantic solicitude for our rights, but you underrate our feelings upon the slavery question.
But there are counsel who trust too much to their powers of reasoning, and underrate a chink in the evidence pro or con.
Let no one underrate the influence of entertainments of an elevating or even of an amusing character, for these do much to make the lives of the people happier and their natures better.
While dwelling most upon the importance of its educational influences, I would not underrate the province of the library in providing entertainment and recreation, which have their culture value.
I had no disposition to underrate his abilities, but I was fortified by the consciousness of a series of triumphs behind me, by a sense of association with prevailing forces against which he was helpless.
To the Englishmen of our colonies, sirs, and that we may never underrate or misunderstand them more!
Washington was not a man tounderrate popular feeling, for he knew that the strongest bulwark of the government was in sound public opinion.
He did not for a momentunderrate their importance, and he saw that they were the harbingers of others of like character, although he could not yet estimate the full violence of the storm of popular disapprobation.
I believe, sir, that you underrate the knowledge of the world and of humanity which the Countess von Szalras possesses, and that you also underrate the extent of her sympathy and the elasticity of her pardon.
Don't imagine that I underrate three or four thousand dollars a year, but--money is worth only what it really brings or does.
I did not think to hear you underrate Your own importance, by dishonouring me.
I asked your brother's value, with no wish To hear you underrate yourself.
