They had taken pains to familiarise their understandings with the Ptolemaic hypothesis; and it may be often observed that those who have once mastered a complex theory are better pleased with it than with one of more simplicity.
Hence a complicated political arrangement is kept in tolerable working order by a series of understandings and of mutual concessions.
In times of misfortune men's understandingseven are sullied.
To write down to children's understandings is a mistake; set them on the scent and let them puzzle it out.
In most other discourses, men are satisfied with sober sense and plain reason; and, as understandings usually go, even that is not over frequent.
It is to the independent people of some leisure and resource in the community that one has at last to appeal for such large efforts and understandings as our present situation demands.
They are needed too urgently to make our leaders leader-like and to sustain the active understandingsof the race.
Their common influence is the discouragement of collective understandings upon the basis of the existing state.
Their own shortunderstandings reach No farther than the present.
Must we demand no help from the understandings of others, unless we submit to renounce all use of our own?
They appreciate not the understandings of one another by such manual and muscular criterions.
It is not to be supposed that the finite understandings of men can fathom the infinite mysteries of God.
The genius lives in advance of his time, having a flash-like insight into knowledge hidden as mystery from the understandings of his fellow-men.
The coldness and pettiness of his manner did not warm the hearts or expand the understandings of his hearers.
Mr. Godwin indulged in extreme opinions, and carried with him all the most sanguine and fearless understandings of the time.
There is a fortunate difference between writers whose hearts are naturally callous to truth, and whose understandings are hermetically sealed against all impressions but those of self-interest, and a man like Mr. Southey.
It has indeed misled the moderns scarcely less than the ancients, though their mistakes, because our understandings are not yet so completely emancipated from their influence, do not appear equally irrational.
Observe their weaknesses, their passions, their humors, of all which their understandings are, nine times in ten, the dupes.
Their vocation leads them to see boys and girls studying the same subjects, and they are pretty unanimous in their opinion that the memories, perceptions, and understandingsof girls are quite equal to those of boys.
As overvaluing men's own understandings in religion, is the ruin of souls and churches; so overvaluing men's raw, unexperienced apprehensions in physic costeth multitudes their lives.
Both in divine and human learning, the memories of children must first be furnished in order to the furnishing of their understandings afterwards.
However mistaken he may be, his manly appeal to our understandings and to our consciences, should at least be heard.
It would have appeared more natural to the weak understandings of men that this sign should have appeared in Italy on the day of the battle; but then it would have been necessary that the inscription should have been in Latin.
The enemies of the Christian religion, the Celsuses, the Porphyrys, and the Julians, have exhausted the sagacity of their understandings upon this subject.
Because he polishes the understandings of his patrons.
Secret treaties or understandings were new and amazingly distasteful to the Radical wing, the Lobby rumours only increased the general uneasiness, and something of a crisis was reached when the undefined alliance was joined by Russia.
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