He apprehends that there was but one until the end of Queen Anne's reign, and that two were instituted by George I.
But Lord Melbourne apprehends that Sir Robert Walpole was the first man in whose person this union of powers was decidedly established, and that its being so arose from the very great confidence which both George I.
Your Majesty had better read the Answer and not give it to the Archbishop, as Lord Melbourne apprehends the Archbishop does not give your Majesty the Address.
Any person who apprehends and prosecutes such person is excused from having to serve in parish and ward offices.
Anyone who apprehends and prosecutes a person guilty of burglary or felonious breaking and entering any house in the day time shall be rewarded 40 pounds in addition to being discharged from parish and ward offices.
When a thought which in any degree apprehends or comprehends a real object, is said to be incorrect, this is as much as to say that it comprises much that is not found in the object itself, and consequently does not coincide with it.
Man apprehendshim newly at each stage Whereat earth's ladder drops, its service done; And nothing shall prove twice what once was proved.
As for Pompilia, what 's flesh, fish or fowl To one who apprehends no difference, And would accept you even were you old As you are .
No, for the purged ear apprehends Earth's import, not the eye late dazed.
And according as a man apprehends Christ in his undertakings and offices, so he will wrestle with and supplicate God.
Only he who apprehends good in the abstract can imitate it in such transient and imperfect good as may be realized in human life, and it is impossible that, having this knowledge, he should not act on it, whether in private or public affairs.
Then comes a third bend in the flow of thought and feeling, and he gladly apprehendsit as his present duty to remain at his work.
Jesus Christ than a man sees when he first sees Him through his tears and his fears, and apprehends Him as the Saviour of his soul, and the sacrifice on whom the burden and the guilt of his sins were laid.
In this sense he apprehends the scriptural conception of the body of Christ, the "interpretation of the divine and the human in the Church.
But the Duke of Norfolk, Mrs. Fawcett says, is our guardian, and she apprehends he is resolved that we shall conform to the times, and that no liberty be allowed us for the exercise of Catholic religion.
In morality (as also is the case in knowledge) the moral ideal, or the objective law of goodness, grows in richness and fulness of content with the individual who apprehends it.
He apprehends a World of Figures here, But not the forme of what he should attend: Good Cousin giue me audience for a-while, And list to me Hot.
Now this is precisely the Metaphysical, which Natural Science only apprehends as the impassable barrier at which it stops short and henceforth abandons its subject to Metaphysics.
If, on the other hand, his eye is free from such defect, he apprehends the shell-element and then refrains from action.
As long as a boy is not aware that some plaything is meant to amuse him, he does not care for it; when on the other hand he apprehends it as meant to give him delight, the thing becomes very dear to him.
One apparatus apprehends the moon in her proper place; the other which moves somewhat obliquely, apprehends at first a place close by the moon, and then the moon herself, which thus appears somewhat removed from her proper place.
Whenever reason apprehends something as evil, it apprehends it under some species of evil; for instance, as being something contrary to a divine precept, or as giving scandal, or for some such like reason.
In like manner a man loves a thing because he apprehendsit as his good.
The intellect apprehends the end before the will does: yet motion towards the end begins in the will.
All other precepts of the natural law are based upon this: so that whatever the practical reason naturally apprehends as man's good (or evil) belongs to the precepts of the natural law as something to be done or avoided.
One is the act whereby it apprehends the truth about something.
But the intellect apprehends the universal good, the attainment of which results in delight: wherefore its purpose is directed to good rather than to delight.
Now it is by faith that the intellect apprehends the object of hope and love.
If, therefore, that which the reason apprehends is such that it naturally assents thereto, e.
Now the apprehensive power apprehends a thing in two ways.
The man who apprehends such a statement of doctrine as the Athanasian creed affords, as a sweet and gracious mystery, thereby draws nearer to God.
The human spirit consists of the rational, or logical, reasoning faculty, which apprehendsgeneral ideas and things intelligible and perceptible.
He is a lover too in that he does not possess, but somehow apprehends his object from afar.
The values which he apprehends must be harmonious, and so far above the plurality of goods as to transcend and unify them.
He is unobservant of passing events, because he neither clearly apprehends them, now that his connection with the outer world is in a measure interrupted by the decay of sense, nor does he much care about them, for the same reason.
It apprehendsalso objects external to the organism itself limiting and affecting its movements.
Whosoever duly apprehends my meaning, has in him the beginning of the divine, eternal, and heavenly wisdom, which is the subject of the whole 119th Psalm.
For all that man can apprehend by his understanding, thoughts, mind, and reason, as well as what he apprehends with his outward senses, altogether bears witness to the love of God.
The word of God produces faith; and faith again apprehends the word of God, and in that word embraces Jesus Christ and the Holy Ghost, by whose spiritual efficacy and virtue man is regenerated or born anew.
Faith apprehends the Person of Christ, and his office; Love follows Christ in his life and conversation; Hope seizes on the glory that is hereafter to be revealed in Christ.
It receives the influences that stream in upon us from the reality around us, it apprehends and interprets them, and works out the lines of our possible action in regard to them.
The influences that flow in upon us from the outside world are already selected before our intellect apprehends them, for they flow in by the avenues of our senses, and the senses are natural instruments of selection.
Smooth apprehends the reader will not charge him with a diversion when he says that any lady of taste might have become enamored of this gentleman without for a moment subjecting herself to the charge of stupidity.
He acts it as life, before he apprehends it as truth.
How calmly and genially the mind apprehends one after another the laws of physics!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "apprehends" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
