After being four days with them, I saw that they were becoming tired of me, and they made signs that they were going up the creek and that I had better go downwards; but I pretended not to understand them.
You talk about high and low people; I presume you use the words in a very different sense from that in which I understand them.
This problem was the peasant, and the revolutionaries, though they had worshipped the People (with a capital P) for years and had done their best to convert them, had never made any attempt to understand them.
Such considered German writings as have come to hand since the outbreak of the war show little tendency to cope with the real facts of the situation, or even to seek to understand them.
But there has been a very real desire to understand them, and also a fixed determination never again to allow such a lack of contact, on vital issues, between the mind of the people and the activities of their ministers.
Without being so learned first, it is not possible to understand them; the scholar has not facts enough about the things to understand them.
For who so likely to understand them as he who knew the surface within them as well as the clay-floor of his own hut?
When I first came across such books I supposed it was my ignorance or want of capacity that made it impossible for me to understand them; but I found, at length, that there was nothing in them to understand.
Reflect on these great truths, understand them thoroughly, you who speak of religious disputes with cold indifference, with apparent mockery and pity, as if they were only scholastic puerilities.
They supposed they had four mules waiting for them somewhere, and a guide; but they couldn't understand a word he said, and he couldn't understand them.
If I understand them, the civilization of the last century has not helped his position as a man.
We ought to try to understand them better, and to be more aware of what they can do to us.
I have seen a good deal of misers, and I think I understand them as well as most persons do.
It's no matter what you say when you talk to yourself, but when you talk to other people, your business is to use words with reference to the way in which those other people are like to understand them.
If we can't understand them, because we have n't taken a medical degree, what the Father of Lies do they ask us to sign them for?
It is true that, if certain views which, if I understand them rightly, some Philosophers have seriously entertained, were true ones, it would be quite impossible that any of them should be judgments of perception.
I knew enough of German to make them understand my story, and had learned enough of their patois to understand them a little in return.
She was even answering their gesticulations with equivalent gestures in her attempt to understand them, and trying amidst shouts of laughter to respond to the monotonous chant of the old women who were zigzagging a dance before her.
Sometimes when we are in company she stands alone and stares at everybody, without saying a word, as if she didn't understand them.
But I like them a great deal better than those gloomy chiefs, and I think I understand them almost.
His money affairs are so complicated, and his own accounts of them so conflicting, that it is impossible to understand them thoroughly.
And they that say that all in the Scripture is so necessary to salvation, (even the darkest prophecies,) that they cannot be saved that understand them not all; or at least endeavour not studiously and particularly to understand them.
All the holy Scriptures, either as to matter or words, are not so necessary, as that no man can be saved, who doth not either believe or understand them; but some parts of it are more necessary than others.
To understand them, the spectator should first read an account of her life in any good French history.
But, in any case, the facts will remain unaltered, and will not vanish because we may be unable to understand them.
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