But let him not too readily imagine that another is ill employed, because, for want of fuller knowledge of his business, he is not able tocomprehend its dignity.
Through the gay babble of voices and amid cries and interruptions, Wayne managed to comprehend the story.
After a silence he said: "What would you think of me if I told you that I do not comprehend a single word of what you have just told me?
I do not comprehend you," answered Andre in a glacial voice.
During this conversation Paul's cheek had grown paler and paler, for, occupied as he was, he could not fail to comprehend something of what was going on.
He is also more fitted to console and advise, for, as his profession brings him into contact with the frailties and passions of the world, he can comprehend and excuse.
All that it can comprehend and utilize is taught it in the various religions.
Reflection upon such facts leads one to at least faintly comprehend the possibility of space itself disappearing from the inner planes--space as we know it.
It is only when our friend is gone that we begin to appreciate his real value and comprehend how large a part he really played in our existence.
Quite probably, he may be some ignorant soul who does not at all comprehend his new surroundings, and is striving madly to get into touch again with the only kind of life that he understands.
His very ability to comprehend spiritual truth and his moral strength to resist temptation, were conferred upon him, not earned by him.
And yet, notwithstanding all this there is a difference, though not a difference that enables him to comprehend what has occurred.
It was some time before he could get into the regular track of gossip, or could be made to comprehend the strange events that had taken place during his torpor.
But from the moment the exiles sought friends abroad, and waged war on their native city, it became increasingly difficult to disentangle the chaos of parties, and comprehend the real meaning of all that took place.
The ugly frog, in its monstrous form, stood before her, and fixed its brown eyes upon her face, listening to her words, and seeming to comprehend them with human intelligence.
From them all unmarried men, who have attained a certain age, are called in Denmark "pepper gentry;" and this must be understood by all who wish to comprehend this history.
This narration would have exceeded the perception of other children, but these children understood it, and at length other children, too, will learn to comprehend its meaning.
Peradventure thou wilt comprehend the steps of God, and wilt find out the Almighty perfectly?
And the light shineth in darkness: and the darkness did not comprehend it.
Job Chapter 38 God interposes and shews from the things he hath made, that man cannot comprehend his power and wisdom.
But they do not describe the process or give us any analogy in nature whereby we may more readily comprehend the idea.
This must be so, for naught by THE ALL itself can comprehendits own nature and being.
A correct understanding of Suggestion is necessary in order to intelligently comprehend the varied psychical phenomena which Suggestion underlies.
Dantes did not comprehend the jest, but his hair stood erect on his head.
Yes," said Danglars, "but I confess I didn't quite comprehend its meaning.
Could you comprehend how the Romans stuffed their pheasants with assafoetida, and the Chinese eat swallows' nests?
And the destruction of your future prospects," replied Noirtier; "yes, I can easily comprehend that.
Franz read it twice before he couldcomprehend what it contained.
It is of no importance that you should comprehend Yusef Ben Djani's theory.
Very well, then, my child, wecomprehend one another.
I am tired of listening to your calumnies; you do not comprehendthe sense of the words of the young man of Nazareth to his disciples.
To the great chagrin of the crowd, much affected by the divine words of the son of Mary, who could comprehend the poorest in mind, as the young Nazarene said, his discourse was interrupted in consequence of a violent tumult that arose.
In fact, the shout that arose from hundreds of voices immediately convinced the French that the business was not to terminate so satisfactorily as they had anticipated, and they began to comprehend that there was a lion in the way.
But women and children--" He repeated the words as if he sought tocomprehend them.
He had been unable to comprehend that the Gentiles were a rejected lot, the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
But his good sense enabling him to comprehend perfectly whatever is explained to him, his agency has been very efficacious.
She answered him as if he had not been a child; and a truth which no words could have made him comprehend seemed to break upon and overwhelm him, while she spoke.
She looked at the child's bright face; she recalled the experience through which she had passed, by which she was able to comprehend these words.
A query which Dame La Theyn found it as difficult tocomprehend as to answer.
Man must not look to be able to comprehend the ways of God--they are above him.
These limits, it is apparent, embrace the whole of the present state of Delaware; they comprehend also that part of Pennsylvania in which Chester lies, as far north as the Schuylkill, and a very considerable portion of Virginia.
And when I began to comprehend it, as spoken by my new friends, I was unable, having but one mouth, to express anything but the simplest ideas.
A spell which acted so widely and so marvellously could not be altogether unfelt by a mind whose peculiar property it was to yield itself to every influence in order to extort its secret and comprehend its power.
Especially can we comprehend how a patriotic Frenchman should choose to accept all the conditions of his epoch, and embrace every opportunity of aiding in the task of correction and amelioration.
From the moment of the rising of the cephalopods out of the water, he had been acting too swiftly to fully comprehendhis actions.
I was no longer a denizen of the solar system: I had come to the Outer Universe, I seemed to grasp and comprehend the whole world of matter.
I am sure you cannot comprehend how her father, her "Dad" and your husband can keep away.
You will never know how much I love you all and you must never give up trying tocomprehend it.
Had the lad wit enough to comprehend all her meaning?
When they were well away, and the men had time to comprehend in its awful fulness what had occurred, they stood together aft and whispered.
St. Bernard remarks: "Let him who can, comprehend it.
Ikey listened to him, with closed eyes, and did not seem to comprehend a tythe of what he heard.
