"Overrating" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... estimate that the Americans employ at least thirty thousand of our seamen in their service, I do not think, as my subsequent remarks will prove, that I am at all overrating the case. ...
— Diary in America, Series One • Frederick Marryat (AKA Captain Marryat)
... consideration the decay of the soft parts and the comminution of the brittle ones, which would subtract so largely from the actual rate of growth, let us double this estimate and call the average increase a foot for every century. In so doing, we are no doubt greatly overrating the rapidity of the progress, and our calculation of the period that must have elapsed in the formation of the Reef will be far within ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 9, No. 56, June, 1862 • Various
... our overrating or overstating the important part which we are now acting in human affairs. It should not flatter our personal self-respect, but it should reanimate our patriotic virtues and inspire us with a deeper and more solemn sense both of our privileges and of our duties. We cannot wish better ...
— Washington's Birthday • Various
... that the Americans employ at least thirty thousand of our seamen in their service, I do not think, as my subsequent remarks will prove, that I am at all overrating the case. ...
— Diary in America, Series One • Frederick Marryat (AKA Captain Marryat)
... objections I had already felt, but had found neither the power nor the will to express. Not the power, because I find it very difficult to analyse closely, or to criticise in appropriate words; and not the will, because I was afraid of doing Mr. Lewes injustice. I preferred overrating to underrating the ...
— Charlotte Bronte and Her Circle • Clement K. Shorter |
