And now that in some way I can make Folks understand me, I only hope that my young steamer friend, among others, will see and enjoy Lord Dolphin's story.
He made us understand in fish-language that he had found a wonderful, wonderful cave, where a party of mermaids had collected a lot of shells, oh, enough to fill a great house!
But I reply that in so far as we understand the causes of sorrow, it ceases to be a passion (Prop.
It is equally difficult to understand why Jesus submitted to such an insult, and why Peter should not have smitten down its perpetrator.
By Substance I understand that which is in itself and is conceived through itself; in other words, that, the conception of which does not need the conception of another thing from which it must be formed.
We shall presently meet with some deductions which contribute to it, but it is not difficult to understand that Spinoza, to use his own word, might call the truths set forth in these propositions "blessed.
I should be telling an untruth if I were to say I do not understand you, and I trust you will pardon me if I tell you that a girl more worthy of you than Evelina, and one more likely to make you happy, I have never seen.
By God, I understand Being absolutely infinite, that is to say, substance consisting of infinite attributes, each one of which expresses eternal and infinite essence.
The third proposition of the fifth part which he quotes merely proves that in so far as we understand passion it ceases to be a passion.
The doctrine is of service in so far as it teaches us that we do everything by the will of God alone, and that we are partakers of the divine nature in proportion as our actions become more and more perfect and we more and more understand God.
By the phrases "in itself" and "by itself," we are to understand that this conception cannot be explained in other terms.
I do not understand what they are as formal sciences.
And yet there is to be found in him a singular reserve, and those shallow persons who taunt him with inconsistency because he makes so much of silence, and yet talks so much, understand little or nothing of him.
If we understand what a triangle is we are not "free" to believe that it contains more or less than two right angles, nor to act as if it contained more or less than two.
And let me say here that the saving feature about Carlyle's contempt, which is such a stumbling-block till one has come to understand it, is its perfect sincerity and inevitableness, and the real humility in which it has its root.
They looked rather blank and unresponsive at first; but I made them understand I was in earnest, and wished to be shown some nests.
I could easily understand that this bird might keep people awake at night by singing near their houses, as I was assured it frequently does; there is something in the strain so startling and awakening.
And so she carried on, and no one well could understand her.
These are things which nobody can understand without seeing them.
Trifle not with me, Houseman," said Aram sternly; "I scarcely yet understand you.
Sunday is a bad day for such matters; but as you pay him by an order, it does not much signify; and I can well understandyour impatience to feel discharged of the debt.
Thus, when the chronicle records that Abbot Martin completed the presbytery, and that then the monks entered into the new church, we should naturally understand that he built no more than the existing choir and its aisles.
Freemasons are recommended to look for a special symbol which they alone can understand and appreciate.
I do not understand how he managed to retire from the service safe and sound.
He was telling no falsehood, yet I did not understand how they could have sent him there; such crimes deserve a much less severe punishment.
I wished to make him understand that I could wash myself, but it was no use contradicting him and I gave myself up to him.
I did not understand why he remained in prison, why he did not escape.
She gave me to understand all the same that he scarcely ever worked, and that he remained for months together without opening a book or touching a pen.
I did not at first understandwhat he meant, for he spoke Russian very badly; but soon afterwards he passed again, and, with a friendly smile, again touched me on the shoulder.
This lesson had not been lost upon him, although it was written that he was never to understand his fault.
Impossible to understand it," the convicts would sometimes say to one another.
I was at first, in spite of my attention, unable to understand many facts which were staring me in the face.
When I began to tell him about the attitude of the country and the feeling in the country that there was a lack of leadership, he stiffened up in his chair and said: "Tumulty, you may as well understand my position right now.
He not only wishes advice from those who have a knowledge of actual modern conditions of warfare, but he is seeking light from those who are able to understand and comprehend the altered conditions of land and naval warfare.
In the policy of patience and forbearance I pursued I tried to make every part of America and the varied elements of our population understand that we were willing to go any length rather than resort to war with Germany.
I can easily understand why his followers are so fond of him.
In reciting these reminiscences, the old warrior used to say that he never could understand the excitement of candidates on election nights.
Only those who know the depressing character of Washington's midsummer heat can understand the full significance of this statement.
You gentlemen mustunderstand just what this means.
I hope it will be useful to you, as it is welcome to me to have this occasion of telling you what I really think and what I understand we are really doing.
Let those who clamour for radical action against England understand this!
We are fighting, as I understand it, for justice to everybody and are ready to stop just as soon as justice to everybody is everybody's programme.
Turning to me he said: "Let me try to make my attitude in this matter plain to you, so that you at least will try to understand what lies in my thoughts.
Germany must be made to understand that we have rights that she must respect.
The mode in which the authorities of the western port carried on their iniquitous traffic deserves commemoration, for no student can understand the history of any period until he has acquainted himself with its prevailing morality.
Montaigne said that he found his readers too learned or too ignorant, and that he could please only a middle class who possessed just knowledge enough to understand him.
It is difficult to understand why Pope should have assumed this small virtue of economy and yet often have been lavish in other directions; indeed, it may be questioned whether it was intended to be an act of economy.
If the English juffrouw, who seemed to understand the lad's state, would consent to sit up to two or three o'clock, so much the better.
I don't understandat all," murmured Connie in bewilderment.
I understand the sense of that poem also," said Finn.
But now understand that before I leave this spot, I will have some of these quicken berries, whether you will or no.
In cautioning you against such wiles, the poet has done you great service as well as in forcing you to understand what is really the democratic principle.
SLAVE He is and he isn't; understand that, if you have wit for't.
Well--of course I understand what you want with her; but I can't see what she wants with you.
Or did she understand him better than he understood himself?
I can understand all the rest; but I can't understand that.
So many ideas, and you're the only man that can understand them.
She could not understand why so large a sum was offered for such slight services as she had rendered.
In fact," said Rickman relating the incident afterwards to Miss Roots, "talk to Mrs. Downey of the Attic Bee and she will thoroughly understand the allusion.
I doubt if you'll be able to make herunderstand all this library affair.
For Miss Bishop gave you to understandthat on the subject of "gentlemen" there was nothing that she did not know.
And if Flossie did not understand the drift of these remarks at least she seemed to understand the kisses that punctuated them.
Flossie couldn't understand why he could never write a thing out clearly from the first, nor why she shouldn't write it for him at his dictation.
And," said he, "I can understand your objection to the shop.
If they had tried tounderstand it, they would have doubted too.
I exchanged thoughts on this with an undergraduate friend, and got no fresh light: in fact, I feared to be profane, if I attempted to understand the subject.
I think it is no wonder that his readers do not understand him.
I afterwards remembered my old thought, that we must surely understand our own words, when we venture to speak at all about divine mysteries.
Now I may be very wrong; but I augur that Newman does understand Paul, and Rogers does not.
I have entered more easily into the heart of his views:--while Christ enunciates divine truth dogmatically; consequently insight is needed to understand him?
Having gained boldness to gaze steadily on the topic, I at length saw that the compiler of the Athanasian Creed did not understand his own words.
I fully expected that reviewers and opponents from the evangelical school would laboriously insinuate or assert, that I never was a Christian and do not understand anything about Christianity spiritually.
I now began to understand why it was peculiarly for unintelligible doctrines like Transubstantiation and the Tri-unity that Christians had committed such execrable wickednesses.
I was at a loss, therefore, to understand why my client should have made such a desperate defence and thus have enormously increased the measure of his guilt in the way he had done.
Am I to understand that you can give no description of the burglar--that there's no one you suspect?
Ballingall assured me that he didn't know what to make of it; and if he was speaking the truth, I quite understand his difficulty.
I simply wish you to understand that before I give up the search the house will literally have been torn to pieces--though I assure you, Ella, that I do not intend to begin by taking off either the slates or the chimney-pots.
If you wish me to understand that you would rather not play, have the goodness to say so plainly.
I saw that he meant to understand more clearly where we stood before he went any further.
You understand that there is a delicate question as to who is entitled to collect the rents of other properties which we believe to have been his freehold.
He was studying it as if now he had made up his mind to understand it clearly.
You understand that I am telling you the story precisely as it was told me, without accepting for it any responsibility whatever.
He feels sure you will understand the reason for the delay in answering your letters—and, indeed, all the other N.
As regards the question about a person who is mentally ill attending the Feasts, anybody who is well enough mentally to attend a Bahá’í Feast and understand what it is all about is certainly well enough to be a voting member.
Can't the Princess understand how risky these writings are for us?
They all understand their people (the agent said) and they all are with the Lenine and others, to return to the sweet past by destroying the bitter present.
Baroness," I said, "honestly and truly I don't understandthese speculations.
She says nothing, but any man of spirit who looks into such clear, unflinching eyes under conditions such as these, will understand instinctively what is written in their suggestive depths!
I think that you must understand that the little services that were asked of you some months ago would have prevented many, many disagreeable events.
She made me understandthat she is in a new plot to save the Emperor's family.
I would like to find a man in Petrograd, so that I could make the rest of the world understand what he really is.
I understandwhy Goroshkin's letters missed me--she got them!
Others said that they could not understand why the different organs of their bodies were measured; perhaps to reduce or increase the size of their body to suit the different works, which they were expected to do near London.
Taking the Sanskrit word Samanta, we may understand it to mean a petty chief or ruler.
They say that their claim is denied because they are weavers by profession, which none of the Southern Brahmans are, and because the Brahmans of the Tamil country do notunderstand their rites, which are the northern rites.
Now there is a sub-division of the Tamil Idaiyans by name Pogondan, and I understand that these Pogondans are the palanquin-bearers of the Idaiyan caste.
Few even of the priests understand Syriac, and, in the Reformed Syrian churches, a Malayalam translation of the Syriac liturgy has now been generally adopted.
I understand that this case has been somewhat misrepresented.
When Fox Eye's family came along, Jack spoke to the wife, and made her understand that these two were his buffalo, and with two of the other women she set about skinning and cutting them up.
Jack, "Why it's simple as rolling off a log; but you've got to understand the reason.
The great secret of the people of Kilcash was that no man, woman, or child of the whole village could understand why people came there in summer.
She could not understand exactly what he meant by his eyes; but she knew they were not eyes of disapproval or dislike, and so she looked down because she would have liked to look up.
Oh, just that she could not possibly understandsuch carelessness and not knowing one's own baggage and so forth and so on.
I am telling you all this," she added, "so that you may understand what the lure of gold can do to a human being.
I did not understand the difficulty, for the rock, though steep, was by no means vertical.
I could understand and share the enthusiasm experienced by Mr. Hinchliff in crossing this truly noble pass.
The circumstance I can least understand is the sudden fall in the temperature of the air after the accident.
The bottom leads out into space, and the top is somewhere in the upper regions: there is absolutely nothing to grasp at, and to this day I cannot understand how a human being could get up or down it unassisted.
Bennen's warnings on the occasion were very emphatic, and I couldunderstand their wisdom now better than I did then.
