In a letter to the Turkish princess, he remarked, that "he had done this, not because he undervalued her beautiful gift, but because it had ever been the habit of his royal ancestors freely to grant favors to those who stood in need of their protection, but not to receive aught by way of recompense.

Let me not be supposed to undervalue the female authors of the present day.

Thus he was led to undervalue the power of truth itself in its contest with error.

No situation could be more unfit for a man of his temperament, than one which exposed him to form intimacies with persons whose profession, almost necessarily, leads them to undervalue the domestic virtues.

I may have undervalued the skill of the younker but, as to his years, there can be no great mistake.

"What can you do?" and tend to undervalue the importance of systematic knowledge and intellectual application.

But he is modest as talented, and appears to undervalue his works, so long as they do not reach his own mental ideal.

" "Perhaps one is in danger of undervaluing people one has known all one's life," said Lady Mary, lightly.

"Listen," he said, "always, my friend, you undervalue a little the English race.

At the same time, her interest in all rational good works was of the warmest, and she was inclined to exaggerate rather than undervalue the merits of their promoters, with one qualification only.

Such Natures one may call Stores of Providence, which are actuated by a secret Celestial Influence to undervalue the ordinary Gratifications of Wealth, to give Comfort to an Heart loaded with Affliction, to save a falling Family, to preserve a Branch of Trade in their Neighbourhood, and give Work to the Industrious, preserve the Portion of the helpless Infant, and raise the Head of the mourning Father.

And if anyone undervalues the sciences which teach us concerning stones and plants and animals, or thinks that nothing can be learnt from them concerning Godallow one who has been from childhood only a humble, though he trusts a diligent student of these sciencesallow him, I say, to ask in all reverence, but in all frankness, who it was who said, "Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow."

Those who were favourable to the measure, generally advocated it by trying to undervalue the chasm that separates Romish from Protestant doctrine.

Coleridge, I have not one truly elevated character among my acquaintance,not one Christian; not one but undervalues Christianity.

All these professional niceties induced the worthy ship-master to undervalue his companion, who, in the main, was very skilful in his particular pursuit, though it was a skill that he exerted after the fashions of his own lake, and not after the fashions of the ocean.

Let me not seem, however, to undervalue that difference.

Public concerns, ecclesiastical or civil, will prove indeed ruinous to those who permit them to occupy all their care and thought, neglecting or undervaluing ordinary duties, more especially those of a devotional kind.

Since moderately prosperous illiterate men undervalue education and most town councillors are moderately illiterate men, he would do his best to keep the salary and appointment of the librarian out of such hands.

But 'Horace' was a man of great literary modesty, and always undervalued his own efforts.

But it will be best not to undervalue an Empire like Russia in this respect.

Deadly intoxication, most deadly fault, that of undervaluing an enemy, which lets our enthusiasm too easily evaporate, and gives him every facility for showing that he is as gallant as we are, and more resolute; that he has much of perseverance and of disciplinequalities more effectual

The Assyrian monarch, like the Prince of Denmark, is highly endowed, capable of the greatest undertakings; he is yet softened by a philosophic indolence of nature that makes him undervalue the enterprises of ambition, and all those objects in the attainment of which so much of glory is supposed to consist.

There runs a strange law through the length of human historythat men are continually tending to undervalue their environment, to undervalue their happiness, to undervalue themselves.

But the worst product of this epidemic error is, the fashion of either denying or undervaluing the evidence of a future state and the survival of individual consciousness, derived from the conscience, and the holy instinct of the whole human race.

Far be it from me to undervalue the exaltation into humility that comes to a man when he consecrates himself to any great and noble cause.