Many of my own best friends," he wrote of Masterman, "entirely misunderstood and underrated him.
Perhaps Darwin was somewhat in error here; and, also, he seems to have underrated the unconscious tendency to act according to natural law, which has no doubt influenced mankind largely.
But if he had underrated his antagonist, his antagonist had also underrated him, and had laid himself open to a fatal blow.
As a diplomatist he had only one fault--he underrated the experience and the knowledge of his opponents; but this was the error of his youth.
Perhaps we have underrated our mill hands and mechanics," said St. Clair, in his precise, dandyish way.
In King Edward's day this vill of Orwell was rated at 4 hides: probably it was somewhat underrated for at the date of the survey it was deemed capable of finding land for nearly 6 teams.
My present impression is that I have underrated this action in the "Origin.
In the "Origin" I think I have underrated (and from the cause which you mention) the effects of the direct action of external conditions in producing varieties; but I hope in Chapter XXIII.
The people, deluded by their decisive victory, underrated the latent strength of their mighty adversary.
It is not to be understood, at the same time, that Jackson underrated soldierly acquirements.
But he had underrated the individual prowess of British and French soldiers.
It was a terrible retribution for having underrated the resources and numbers of the enemy and for imperfectly reconnoitring his position.
Mrs. Farnum looked frightened at Virgie's startling threat, and she realized at once that she had underrated the character of the woman with whom she had to deal.
It is quite evident that the British ministry and their supporters entirely underrated the strength of the colonial party that was opposing England.
It appears that I formerly underrated the frequency and value of these latter forms of variation, as leading to permanent modifications of structure independently of natural selection.
I suppose that I have underratedthe power of lakes in producing pebbles; this, I think, ought to be well looked to.
Darwin adds that he is convinced that he has underrated the power of tropical orchids occasionally to produce seeds without the aid of insects.
I have read professor Geikie's essay, and it certainly appears to me that he underrated the importance of floating ice.
I can suppose, however, that I may haveunderrated him.
And even if I have not underratedhim hitherto, he may yet turn out well.
Human nature is consistently underratedin business, people do themselves out of an awful lot of pleasure and profit by that.
Often they had been obliged to add threepence of their own before the man would go--Timothy had ever underrated the value of emotion.
Soames was startled, but she had underrated his caution and tenacity.
To my inexperience this appeared to bring the whole matter to a conclusion, but I had underrated the foresight of those who arrange these affairs, and also the advantages which made Crawley Down so favourite a rendezvous.
He congratulated him warmly, and confessed that he had always underrated his intelligence.
Herodotus, on the other hand, is apt to be underrated in these modern days.
He had probably quite underrated the high qualities of the Persian nobles.
And here it was singular, that Julia evinced not so much alarm or perturbation as her mother; whether it was that she underrated the danger he was like to run, or overrated the prowess and valor of her lover.
Warton has not exaggerated the defects of Statius, but he has underrated his merits.
Footnote 77: It is remarkable that Avaux, though a very shrewd judge of men, greatly underrated Berwick.
They greatly overrated the pressure of the burden; they greatly underrated the strength by which the burden was to be borne.
Napoleon underrated the difficulties of his advance or else overrated his brother's military capacity.
Some part of the blame must surely attach to the slow-paced D'Erlon and to the Emperor himself, who first underrated the difficulties both at Ligny and Quatre Bras, and then changed his plans when Ney was in the midst of a furious fight.
When the Prussians came on, he underrated their strength and believed to the very end that Grouchy would come up and take them between two fires.
Slowly, too, he began to see that he had underrated Melun's resources and fiendish cleverness; for this was evidently Melun's work.
He underrated some of the classical composers, notably Mozart.
The expectation showed how much I underratedthe magnitude of that broad stormʼs area.
This underrated computation must be accepted unless it can be shown that the temperature produced by radiant heat is not inversely as the diffusion of the rays.
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