The drama comprehendsand develops the events of human life with a force and depth which no other style of poetry can reach.
This mystery, the most ancient dramatic work of modern Europe, comprehends the whole history of our Lord, from his baptism to his death.
His work comprehends a history of nearly all the nations of the world at that time known.
The other class of writings alluded to comprehends the works of the Christian authors.
It comprehends the age of which Cicero is the representative as the most accomplished orator, philosopher, and prose-writer of his time, as well as that of Augustus, which is commonly called the Golden Age of Latin poetry.
Mysticism comprehends all doctrines which deny authority to reason, and admit no other principles of knowledge or rule of life than supernatural or direct revelation.
If the Englishman invented the word comfort, it is the Parisian who most thoroughly comprehends the thing.
The parable stretches far into both time and space: it comprehends the world, and the successive dispensations of God there.
This is repeated in the experience of every generation, and every individual, that grows up within the circle of Christian ordinances, as soon as the mind comprehends the message of mercy.
Mind, and mind only, is capable of truth, and comprehends in itself all that is, so that whatever is beautiful can only be really and truly beautiful as partaking in this higher element and as created thereby.
The first comprehends what we are to believe, the other what we are to practise.
He comprehendsevery thing easily, takes it in with Pleasure, and retains it long.
That particular Scheme which comprehends the Social Virtues, may give Employment to the most industrious Temper, and find a Man in Business more than the most active Station of Life.
As regards the question started, it is said that that master of yoga, named Hari, comprehends truly how it happens.
When one begins to study and understands properly the five and twenty topics of enquiry, one then comprehends that the Oneness of the Soul is consistent with the scriptures and its multiplicity is what is opposed to them.
One comprehends perfectly that the last high building on the skirts of a city embraces the largest unobstructed view of the surrounding country.
The ranger went to work like a man who comprehends that his life depends upon a second.
Thus, if one and the same cognition comprehendsmany things, one and the same opinion will also comprehend many things.
If it comprehends two subjects which are not in the same genus, or in genera not subordinate one to the other, this too will show that it is equivocal.
Recollect that the same differentia cannot belong to two distinct genera neither of which comprehends the other, unless both are comprehended under some higher genus.
This title comprehends within its range another, which is presently announced as distinct and separate--Fallacia Consequentis.
But, if any thing has throughout an infinite time the power of doing more things than one, it must have the power of doing more things than one at the same time; for this infinite time comprehends its whole existence.
The circular motion of the Heaven, being itself perfect, circumscribes and comprehends all the imperfect motions which are subject to limit and cessation.
We now come to the Russell-square group, which comprehends all those people who "live private," and aim at being thought fashionable and independent.
He must be a most accomplished, a most extraordinary man, who comprehends them both together.
One comprehends that it did not belong to the empirical school to revive this noble part of philosophic science.
He comes after them, it is true, but he belongs to their company: he comprehends them, loves them, sustains them.
The deficit is furnished by the great mass of the community, which comprehends every individual of the nation.
A nation, in a collective sense, comprehendsall the individuals of whatever age, from just born to just dying.
The first class of argumentscomprehends such as relate, to what may be called the manner of the drama.
This letter usually comprehendsthree subjects: first, the state of the society, in which the sufferings for tithes and other demands of the church are included.
It comprehends the past, present, and future, in all their fulness.
It is omnipresent by reason of the infinitude of its particles, and it comprehends all things.
The third thing it comprehends under it, is a faithful acknowledgment that the work is built and finished, by no power and strength of men, but by the grace of God.
It comprehends under it a thanksgiving; the workers give all praise to the work.
This order of our external feelings comprehends all those states of mind, however various they may be, which immediately succeed the changes of state, produced, in any of our organs of sense, by the presence of certain external bodies.
Extension and resistance are the distinguishing qualities that direct us in all our applications of the word which comprehends them.
Though the whole sweep of country was shewn to us but for an instant, we must have seen every object which it comprehends within the sphere of our vision.
It comprehends both, when we distinguish the mountain or forest which we see, from the mountain or forest of which we dream.
It is, however, to that widest and most important order of our external affections, which comprehends the feelings more commonly termed sensations, and universally ascribed to particular organs of sense, that we have now to proceed.
The latter of these classes comprehends all, or nearly all the mental states, which have been classed, by others, under the head of active powers.
Sight, then, which comprehends all the varieties of colour, is the object, and the only object, of the sense which we are considering.
This important science comprehends only that part of private ethics which is capable of being reduced to fixed and general rules.
The first comprehends those which it is scarce in the power of human industry to multiply at all.
The public trade of the company extends no further than the trade with Europe, and comprehends a part only of the foreign trade of the country.
What is called gross profit, comprehends frequently not only this surplus, but what is retained for compensating such extraordinary losses.
It comprehends both the inland and the coasting trade.
To the cultivated mind that comprehends what is meant, the above interpretation is what he conceives of as his social secular activities for the betterment of his fellowmen.
He comprehends the fact of its being, and that is as far as he or any rational mind can go.
Finance concerns not merely the profit or solvency of a company; it also comprehends the amount of money that the company turns back to the community through wages.
They work solely on parts or articles needed by the company, but our needs are so vast that this list comprehends nearly everything.
It comprehendsthe two-fold benefit of education and labor in its system of "Industrial Schools.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "comprehends" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
