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We propose to transform society almost without anyone knowing it; to work from the foundation upwards without unduly disturbing the superstructure.
With his usual enthusiastic generosity, Steele, in this passage, unduly depreciates his own merits to exalt the genius of his friend.
Then, as he looked once more at Judith, the unduly sensitive organ made the reverse movement, contracting with a spasm of real pain.
Bernard, which lies at a considerable distance from Geneva, and where the temperature is unduly depressed by surrounding masses of snow.
These detached statements, which may seem unduly minute, are made in justice to a brave soldier, who can no longer defend himself.
If, perchance, even at that time you flattered him and exalted him unduly, now endure that for which you yourselves are responsible.
Indeed, they exaggerated its evils, for many of the "criminals" were only mild offenders against unduly harsh and cruel laws.
The child is unduly sensitive, whines, hollers, or flies into a violent rage when its will is crossed in the least degree.
Sometimes there is a condition of mental instability, the patient is easily excited, and is unduly affected by alcohol or other stimulants.
The treatment of our American prisoners was undoubtedly sometimes unduly harsh, but it is impossible to accept this story as literally true.
The general education of the student must on no account be neglected, in prematurely or unduly developing his talent for 'cello playing.
In order to bring out his story with the utmost possible distinctness, he was too frequently compelled unduly to accentuate his point.
In a court of mourning he struck Anne as unduly blithe and cheerful, and instantly her sore heart revolted and hated him.
Gilbert, offered a wicker chair, preferred the grass because, he said, there was grave danger he might unduly "modify" the chair.
In this way unduly deep shadows can be softened, veiled high lights brightened, or almost any modification obtained which may be deemed desirable.
Will it not be unduly discriminating against a certain class of opinion when it has undertaken to represent impartially all shades of opinion?
I satisfied myself that Eddie's patent, guaranteed perfectly waterproof tent was not leaking unduly, and wriggling into a new position, slept.
I had, it seemed, been unduly jealous of Beck, and unsuspecting of my real enemy, the man whose lips were closed in death.
Credits are not unduly extended, and every phase of the situation seems in a state of preparedness for a period of unexampled prosperity.
The initiation, while rough, was not unduly so for a secret society, and the three chums had been through worse experiences.
Taft, at a diplomatic dinner, had for a neighbor a distinguished French traveler who boasted a little unduly of his nation's politeness.
That law is the law of stimulation, which is never unduly aroused, except by sinful indulgences; but when aroused, is dreadfully urgent.
Independently of such impracticable demands for future reforms, the educationalist of to-day seeks to protect the child from unduly frequent sexual excitement.
Still, perhaps, in painting a portrait the artist may be misled into unduly emphasizing some single, passing phase of the sitter's character.
The sense of touch is very differently affected, for so far from being diminished in its action, it is invariably unduly exalted.
On the other hand the Scots may be unduly inflated with the opposite idea, so that imperfections may exist on both sides.
No one had been unduly surprised by his announcement that he was going up on the steamboat to have a look at the country.
National passions, unduly exalted in the decline of religion, burned beneath the surface of nearly every land with fierce if shrouded fires.
John in his jaunty manner, which was always irritating because it made the person he talked to appear unduly clumsy and in earnest.
This effect is highly injurious, for while it raises them unduly in their own estimation, it lowers them in that of the world.
He would not hereafter seek her presence unduly, but when they were thrown together, would show himself merely gentle and brotherly.
His conversation was depressing, not because he dwelt unduly upon death and kindred subjects, but because his views of life were so pessimistic.
It would be folly to irritate unduly the custodian of the chicken lest the fowl be consumed before friendly relations could be reestablished.
Solomon had unduly favored his own tribe by exemptions from the general requisition, and Ephraim fretted under a sense of wrong.
We can fail and make children disloyal instead of loyal subjects by unduly magnifying our office, by insisting too much on our authority.
Above all, his hostility to the Revolution should at least make later generations beware lest novelty of outlook be unduly confounded with erroneous doctrine.
We have never hitherto kept up old animosities unduly long, and that has been one of the secrets of our strength in the world.
Considering its mossy appearance, the earth seemed unduly hard and strangely unsuited to serve as a cushion for the recumbent human form.
The crystal shades of the hall chandelier were not proof against a bayonet, held unduly aloft at the posture of Shoulder Arms.
Two sleighs had started from Bennet station, and the drifts on Caribou proving unduly deterrent, one sleigh load had been temporarily abandoned.
In some rural districts this familiarity is more manifest than in others, particularly where unduly harassed by boys and equally offensive birds.
To specify the remarkable escapes would unduly lengthen this chapter, but, as near as my recollection serves me, no man entirely escaped.
I am less a friend than a doctor: yet I thought that your greeting was a warm one, and so perhaps have trespassed unduly.
Some however remained, especially females and the children of both sexes, by whom it appears the workhouses continued to be unduly burdened.
Looking back he could remember several instances when he and Jack had done such a caper as this without exerting themselves unduly.
To dream that you take laudanum, signifies weakness of your own; and that you will have a tendency to be unduly influenced by others.
We took him for an upstart favorite; though we might have known, had we thought of it, that the king never promotes unduly.
Looking backward in an impartial manner it cannot be said that the Liszt compositions have unduly suffered from the proverbial neglect of genius.
In the sharp controversies of the Commonwealth period the slight indications given by the version of a certain ecclesiastical bias were unduly exaggerated.
An additional advantage should be mentioned: a tight shoe, retarding circulation, may in extreme wintry weather increase unduly the danger of frosted feet.
Hearing which, Jim became pompous, and the widow judged that she might tell her news without unduly rousing up his jealousy.
Incidentally the movement created a kind of contagious hysteria which naturally multiplied the phenomena and made detached and critical attitudes unduly difficult.
If he had been thus employed it was considered that his life has been unduly shortened, and he sold accordingly at a lower price.
If he was, posterity may be sure that his influence was not exercised unduly in the direction of a bloodless solution of the crisis.
Birds and people who worry themselves unduly over their belongings seem to lose these more often than do those folk who behave more philosophically.
Varicose veins are the result of valves giving way through inherited weakness or disease so that others have an unduly large weight to support.
Such torpor of spiritual understanding and sentiment, I say, ought to keep us from being unduly positive, or self-assertive, in our interpretation of Scripture.
Public officials and that part of the crowd that is clamorous for vengeance are always ready to assail its activities unfairly and unduly.
If the wait is unduly long and movement of some kind becomes imperative, let such movement be made so slowly as to be almost imperceptible.
The frequently recurring depressions were rendered all the more disastrous, because in times of high prices "the margin of cultivation" was unduly extended.
The fact that they were really built for something need not unduly depress us for a moment, or drag down our soaring fancies.
His stories are distinguished by simplicity of motive; each is related with fine unobtrusive humor and with an underlying pathos, never unduly emphasized.
If we can regard religions as stages in the evolution of religion, then we have no motive either to depreciate or unduly to extol any of them.
George Eliot is unduly neglected now, but it is the revenge of time on her for the praise expended on her works in her lifetime.
Considering that he was a new arrival who was too disdainful to put any questions, Julien did not fall into unduly great mistakes.
George Eliot is unduly neglected now, but it is the revenge of time on her for the praise expended upon her works in her life-time.
The ignorant person may read it without being made to feel ashamed, and the most painfully tender susceptibilities will not be unduly harassed.
The man who, being (perhaps unduly) proficient in it, becomes a forger, would not necessarily have remained blameless if he had continued illiterate.
"Shall I be set down as unduly inquisitive," he said, "if I ask you to tell me what you suppose this private reason to be?"
Another strain upon the unduly excitable brain lay in the impossibility of learning exactly how many miles it was to a given point.
Caring supremely or unduly for one's self; regarding one's own comfort, advantage, etc., in disregard, or at the expense, of those of others.
The latter is solving her problem by finding work outside the home, while the former is still unduly harassed by household troubles.
Unduly sensitive on such points by reason of his own past, he had the look of one completely ground down to the last indignity.
The fact that he was acquainted with my name showed that he was unduly interested in me, even though he had partially denied it.
When George scolded her for having unduly encouraged Robert, she meekly denied the accusation, though her brother would not accept her denial.
Even if he was unduly friendly with Sadie Kent, it was indubitably through and because of their dealings together in the stolen telegram business.
The world was an excellent place where a combination of uprightness and of pious ingenuity made the way of the virtuous not unduly hard.
Trooping is an experience that improves on acquaintance, but one was apt in those days to think that the embarkation officials were unduly fussy.
These may be substituted for each other as the ear shall dictate, provided that the general iambic base is not overthrown or unduly obscured.
There is a great temptation, on account of the known excessive liability of the parts to septic infection, to use an antiseptic solution unduly strong.
Instances, indeed, are not wanting to substantiate the claim that communism, by unduly exalting our altruistic impulses, proceeds upon a false psychological basis.
Each individual is a member of the body corporate, and no member can be unduly favored or unjustly oppressed without injury to the entire community.
The medical arrangements provided by this official, who became unduly inflated with the eminence of his position, were of the most arbitrary character.
He was simply unduly apprehensive for the safety of the extreme right flank of the army, not of his own corps in particular.
It is far from our wish that any plantations should diminish the already scanty population, or unduly press upon the pastoral agricultural occupants.
He is acknowledged to be an able administrator, but is charged with unduly favoring his countrymen and personal friends in the distribution of official patronage.
Earnest as he is to preserve its honor and its discipline, he is yet too magnanimous, too just, too truthful, to press his charge unduly.
He was extraordinarily impressed by the girl's plucky act, but the Captain's order, though a wise one, struck him as being unduly harsh.
This type of procedure unduly delays the diffusion of knowledge and for a variety of reasons justifiably annoys other students of the subject.
The upright man would scorn to deceive his neighbor, but is ever unduly inclined to regard some measure of self-deception as inseparable from his ideal.
If true, it is a proof that the need of ritual institutions, and the danger of unduly exalting them, was not peculiar to post-exilic times.
The scientific portions which are gleaned from the best sources are not unduly obtrusive, though of sufficient length to give any information required.
While possibly in the case of the elder Agassiz, the recognition of truth was sometimes unduly circumscribed, that could never be said of Alexander.
Thus, as James somewhere suggests, "a bare figure by Michelangelo, with unduly flexed joints, may come somehow to suggest the moral tragedy of life."
A noose was placed around the neck of the bone and pulled on forcibly, while any unduly resisting structures were cut with the knife.
He should, therefore, never either unduly strive to please, nor be fearful or distrustful concerning the validity of the manifestation being made through him.
I don't wish to be unduly fastidious, but hitherto, so far as I know, at least you have not taken the trouble to deceive me willfully.
It is a golden rule never to unduly exhaust a youngster, and then, when age has been acquired, he will be game all day or night.
As he went up the Lane he looked at his boots, at his gloves, and at his trousers, and saw that nothing was unduly soiled.
Form is not to be unduly magnified by itself; it is excellent only when it is a fitting embodiment of the thought and feeling expressed.