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And the whole thing has been unnatural because that cat and I are both able to talk your language, and to understand the words you say.
We all understand intuitively there is plenty of food in the world.
Now I understand why you were crying.
I can't even understand it.
To understand this problem, consider our relationship with knowledge over the centuries.
We cannot understand it nor the reason of it.
I don't understand how we could have missed him.
If he lived to be a hundred he'd never understand women.
If they cannot understand that, they cannot understand much that I have to say.
My mother, moreover, succeeded in making me understand a good deal.
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But you don't need those numbers; I understand you've done your homework searching public records.
I began to read the Bible long before I could understand it.
Oh, I can understand why you would want to deceive people, I just don't understand how you can involve your family in such a thing – especially Tammy!
That wasn't the point she was trying to make, but maybe a man would never understand what she was talking about.
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As if that were important, and there were not enough to understand you without them.
I can't understand why he wants to go to the war, replied Pierre, addressing the princess with none of the embarrassment so commonly shown by young men in their intercourse with young women.
No; just trying to understand a few things.
If it were a war for freedom I could understand it and should be the first to enter the army; but to help England and Austria against the greatest man in the world is not right.
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I understand you have a big ranch west of here.
When new technology comes out, we generally understand it in terms of what it displaces.
We have a natural desire to make beautiful things and a bone-deep need to understand the world we live in and our place in it.
In the electrical building we examined the telephones, autophones, phonographs, and other inventions, and he made me understand how it is possible to send a message on wires that mock space and outrun time, and, like Prometheus, to draw fire from the sky.
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I understand you have good people on your payroll.
All this was so terrible and unreal that he could not understand it at all, and so had good reason to be afraid.
When we were fortunate enough to find a nest I never allowed her to carry the eggs home, making her understand by emphatic signs that she might fall and break them.
Her words puzzled me very much because I did not then understand anything unless I touched it.
I do not understand quite what that means.
She did not understand who was to go or where to.
I don't understand peace, Taran!
Once, when a question puzzled her very much, I suggested that we take a walk and then perhaps she would understand it.
She could understand nothing, think of nothing and feel nothing, except passionate love for her father, love such as she thought she had never felt till that moment.
He must understand what Alex had been through.
No, I don't understand.
I never did understand why Dad married her.
She didn't fully understand what was going on between her father and these people.
I wanted to explain things to you in a way you'd be able to understand.
By doing this, we will come to understand those conditions better and perhaps prevent them.
Princess Mary did not understand what he wanted of her or why he was asking to be discharged.
So you understand the whole position of our troops?
Not being a military man I can't say I have understood it fully, but I understand the general position.
I don't want you to give that number to anyone unless it's an emergency, you understand?
There is one thing I still don't understand – it's out of character.
I could understand why he would be chasing her, but if I'd have known she'd go for a guy older than me...
It's just that... well, she doesn't understand him, she stammered.
They all didn't understand that she couldn't simply run out and get a job like she had in Tulsa.
Why Pete hired you instead of a man, I'll never understand.
No, because men have needs and desires women couldn't understand.
If only she could understand their words.
That's true but the electrostatic attraction is something we're just beginning to understand.
I understand but I want to do it, in spite of the nightmares and the risks.
But if Quinn got drunk and slept with Betsy, like years ago, you'd understand and forgive her, wouldn't you?
I'm sorry, I don't understand.
I understand the owner is in California.
She seemed to understand and was off to walk Bumpus while I filled in Betsy on my conversation.
But you understand that medical treatment isn't free?
Do you understand? he asked.
She neared him, sensing a flood of raw emotion she didn't understand.
We've got patrols around-- " "Speck doesn't understand that if even a mosquito leaves the town, there's no way we can stop the spread!"
I understand what I'm doing, but I don't understand why.
You can't understand that or how I feel.
Darkyn is not an easy person to understand or live with, and I'm still not certain at all what to think of him at times.
I don't understand any of this.
I know there was more to why she sought me out but I don't understand what.
The soft bed was warm from her body heat, and she found herself running a hand over the downy comforter while she tried to understand the emotions within her.
I wanted you to understand what it was like to be a deity.
She didn't understand why he'd chosen her of all people.
She.d never understand a man like Kris, who saw the world only in black and white!
But you must understand my people are not like you, are not as accepting of your loose tongue.
What if you can't make them understand?
There's no reason I should expect you to understand.
I know you're upset, and I completely understand.
She was beginning to understand the voicemails he kept getting.
He didn't fully understand why, unless it was because he hadn't tapped her yet.
Losing his family at such an early age, I understand why, she said, thoughts on her cousins.
She said nothing, too uneasy to understand what she thought.
Her abrupt contentedness was a warning he didn't understand how to interpret.
Yet it made sense on a level that she didn't quite understand.
You of all people understand how things should work.
I didn't understand what you were doing until after.
I didn't understand it until much later that she wanted to destroy the immortal world and use my vamps to do it.
She didn't understand what she was supposed to do with it around her neck.
He didn't understand why, when she was so torn about what to do.
I understand how difficult it is to fall for someone so outside the norm, you feel like you're going crazy.
It won't be pretty, but you need to understand.
You can't be a part of his world, unless you understand what he is.
You understand him better than I thought.
Jessi knew there was, and it bothered her not to understand what exactly that meant for her.
It is important to understand clearly the criterion which he applied; it is frequently misapprehended.
The praise of the fair sex in the first poem is exceptional in the literature of his age; and its geniality may help us to understand the author's popularity with his contemporaries.
Hence we are able to understand how the Gnostic µirTrtp, the Sophia, appears as the mother of the Hebdomas (4360µas).
His letters betray discontent with Elizabeth's reluctance to assist the States; he could not understand her antipathy to rebellious subjects, and he returned in October, having accomplished little.
With Goethe, who viewed with interest and appreciation the poetical fashion of treating fact characteristic of the Naturphilosophie, he continued on excellent terms, while on the other hand he was repelled by Schiller's less expansive disposition, and failed altogether to understand the lofty ethical idealism that animated his work.
They understand the coming of Christ in the flesh, his works, teaching and sufferings, in a spiritual sense.
But it is the spirit which quickens them that can understand spiritually what they hear."
Miss Fuller and Miss Sullivan could understand me, but most people would not have understood one word in a hundred.
Some understand her readily; others do not.
I don't understand, said he.
She did not understand what he was laughing at.
I then thought that I did not understand her.
Then he again opened his eyes and said something none of them could understand for a long time, till at last Tikhon understood and repeated it.
But I cannot understand the cruelty...
This disposition on the left flank increased Pierre's doubt of his own capacity to understand military matters.
Surely she would understand.
I don't understand all of it, though.
You will soon see for yourself, and you will understand everything.
Sometimes, when he was afraid, he was easy for her to understand.
He didn't understand the ins and outs of their blood bond, but he knew how much she rocked his world when she drank from him earlier.
I was too young to understand why she sought out my mother and me.
Do you understand me? he asked.
Also understand that I'll kill anyone who comes between us and my plans, he warned.
Do you understand me?
The kid was hard to read, and she guessed his anger had more to do with his struggle to understand his new role than the vamps who clearly had no respect for him.
But I don't understand it.
What she didn't understand was why a vamp would consider it his job to remind her of her mission.
Jule's next words were low and in a tongue she didn't understand.
I'm beginning to understand why the … why your father wants you.
I don't understand what that means, Father.
I know you can't understand that.
He couldn't yet understand the magic in his veins, unleashed by the vamp without any explanation of its depths.
You Guardians don't understand how to bargain.
She was in pain she didn't understand.
Does she understand how important her gift is?
She hesitated, sensing that entering his domain would somehow seal her to a fate she didn't yet understand.
Tears began to spill again, and she began to understand how Darian felt, utterly alone and abandoned in the corner of her mind.
He began to understand why and couldn't help but feel frustrated at having to find a way to win her instead of command her.
Not the kind you'd understand.
Then again, he was a man, and he didn't pretend to understand a woman's mind.
Awed by the power she had over him, she began to understand the extent of his solitary existence for the millennia of his life.
While she didn't yet understand the depths of her new world, she found peace in knowing this was indeed her world, too.
Like her other thoughts, this one escaped before she was able to understand its meaning.
You can never understand.
Deidre couldn't understand the relationship and how permanent he claimed it was.
That's an emotion I do understand, she said.
She didn't fully understand the demon senses that Darkyn indicated were part of her now.
Her instincts were at full alarm, but she didn't understand what she had to fear from Gabriel's death dealers.
Not because you deserve it, but because I understand you had a weakness that consumed you.
I don't understand his motivation.
I do not understand how you feel as you do.
Trust us to understand and maybe help.
That's why it bothered me so much when Martha seemed to understand so quickly.
Only little Lydia—who I understand was Jill-on-the-job and busted you for racing on her first day on duty.
She stared at him, trying to understand.
I'm beginning to understand what you've gotten yourselves into.
He knew she'd understand.
Then, Fitzgerald added, I understand Mr. Dean was in the area, too, though I don't as yet know why.
I understand from Dawkins' son his old man was paying Josh pretty well to be his mine manager—up until August of 1961 when Josh disappeared.
No, you don't understand.
Wynn wasn't able to pity her, but he was able to understand the bigger picture.
She didn't understand how, when there was so much beauty around her.
In her mind, she saw only them being happy, finally, after an eternity of struggling to understand one another.
She didn't understand what pain was at that point.
She doesn't understand the human world yet.
She didn't understand how humans could feel so much and still function when she was overwhelmed.
She doesn't understand how unlikely that is.
He wasn't going to understand what she'd done.
She didn't understand exactly why, except that Gabe was locked out of the underworld.
That issue, she should understand how to fix.
She didn't understand what her instincts were trying to tell her, but right now, they wanted her to climb a tree to see the lake from above.
I realized then you'd never understand or accept me for who I was.
You didn't have the ability to understand.
He didn't understand what.
Deidre glanced at Darkyn in puzzlement, and Gabriel realized she didn't yet understand the depth of the Dark One's obligation to her.
Deidre didn't understand how that was possible.
I understand if you hate me.
Deidre held no warmth at all for Darkyn, but she could understand that the girl didn't belong in this mess.
He didn't understand it at the time.
I never could understand why she would want to give up her own child.
Maybe it was a relationship that was difficult for the modern wife to understand.
Even when they didn't understand the cause, they empathized with the emotion.
When they talked to him, he seemed to understand, but he didn't respond.
It was hard to believe he didn't understand the source of her distress, and yet he acted as though he was baffled.
He couldn't possibly know or understand, but he seemed to sense something was wrong between them.
Her sign language vocabulary had increased, but many things were still difficult to understand.
She'd been asked that question more than once while out and didn't understand it, unless it was some sort of odd Southern greeting.
She laughed, knowing he couldn't possibly understand why she found it funny.
If you don't want to forgive me or can't, I understand, she started.
He cleared it, pushing aside the haze of alcohol and the pain he sensed but didn't understand the source of.
If you want me to get a hotel room, I totally understand.
Yes, but I don't understand how to use them yet.
But past-Deidre had motivations deeper than anything I could understand.
She didn't understand it, not when he obviously had another woman.
No matter what he said, she'd heard enough about past-Deidre to understand there was much more to their relationship.
She didn't understand him.
The power of an Ancient is beyond anything humans can understand.
He was too cagey for her to understand what he felt.
I don't expect a human to understand.
He spoke in tear-filled gibberish she didn't understand, and she moved away to the door.
Too surprised to understand what exactly was happening, she obeyed the police officer's instructions to sit down and shut up and sat in the quiet police station reception area.
Gabriel didn't need to understand modern science.
It's a long story, one you don't necessarily need to know to understand your circumstances.
Did humans understand both their universal significance and their individual insignificance?
Sasha was not a hard creature to understand.
He spoke a smattering of words she didn't understand.
He didn't understand why the self-proclaimed guardian of humans would drag such a helpless creature into this web of evil.
Would she ever understand him?
Nothing a blood monkey could understand.
She didn't exactly understand the sensation except that she didn't ever want that feeling to end.
You must understand there is a reason behind what I ask of you that will not become clear for some time.
She left him alone in the dark with his thoughts, and he began to understand more how his friend Rhyn felt in a world that was pitted against him.
You wouldn.t understand.
The Council meeting was a bust, and there was more tension in the air than he could understand.
She didn.t understand much of the Immortal world, but she knew Death always won.
Someone like you could never understand.
You.re right, Kris, I can.t understand how you could turn your back on the person who needed you most and justify it with your shortsighted arrogance.
I understand you want to go to the convent.
Fury she didn.t understand crossed his face.
I understand my fate is either bad or really bad.
If I get her help, she said everything would be okay, and everyone would understand Sasha killed the Immortals.
That he was troubled was no secret, though Rhyn didn.t understand why, aside from being a slave to Death.
She doesn't understand you are mated.
I didn't understand what it meant.
She is not from here, doesn't understand her role.
She didn't understand the rules of this world well enough to know if she were jumping the gun, but what she heard made her very uncomfortable.
It's a very interesting game, though I don't understand how it works exactly.
He was silent in surprise once more, unable to understand how she might consider his battle plans nothing more than a complex game.
You understand ground and space battles?
I don't always understand all the parts.
Only now was he beginning to understand that her staying depended less on duty and honor and more on him.
Disbelief and sorrow crossed her face as she began to understand her options.
She pressed one button, then another, struggling to understand the symbols that popped up on the screen in response.
She didn't understand the significance of the pictures or writing and frowned, wondering how such a simple place was considered sacred.
She struggled to understand what the images were trying to tell her.
She didn't understand why until they reached the top, overlooking a deep canyon.
I know I haven't been the best of friends, so if you don't want to talk to me anymore, I'll understand.
I've been a warrior for too long to understand how to be the lifemate you deserve.
You gotta understand these genealogy-type women, he added.
You have to understand.
I learned a long time ago, that anyone who asks that question can't understand my answer anyway.
I understand opportunities were limited a century ago but surely she could have been a school teacher or office clerk or something above a brothel prostitute.
I never will understand how you could know so little about Fred.
These last days I've begun to understand this and come to the dreaded decision of what is to become of me.
Cynthia grimaced but seemed to understand.
Cynthia seemed to understand his hurt.
I can understand that after you guys tried to kill each other.
I can't understand those climbers....
But I still don't understand.
I'm not sure, but I'm guessing his head injury caused him to not understand, or even remember what happened.
I can understand it must be scary to think of giving birth.
She mumbled something he could not understand until he forced concentration, eventually discerning the thin voice whispering The Lord's Prayer.
I only wish to understand what this place is and how I came to be here.
Sarah usually made her beaus understand that vampirism isn't all it is cracked up to be, and she would not wish this life on anyone.
I am here to help you understand her, because, for some unfathomable reason, she cares about you.
Sarah could never understand why; she guessed it was some macho alpha male thing, but Jackson would occasionally go out looking for trouble.
What he did not understand was that she found his music to be cathartic.
So, I think you can understand you really get to know a person in that kind of time, right?
He shook his head wondering if he would ever truly understand this woman.
Not at all crazy, I understand completely.
He guessed she would understand.
He didn't quite understand why she needed that.
He drove home slowly, trying to understand what had happened.
I think the best advice I can give, is try to understand that everything she does and says initially comes from fear and shock.
Jesus, Elisabeth, I don't understand.
How could he expect her to understand things he did not understand himself?
I understand you don't want to throw everything at me at once, but you need to explain this now.
I will make them understand.
You understand, I need to know as much as possible about the guy who finally landed my girl here.
Do you understand what could have happened?
I could have killed you, don't you understand that?
He didn't leave a single detail out, hoping she would understand how obvious it was that she would not hurt him.
Now you will understand why we drink so much.
I understand it's the right thing to do, but don't for a minute expect me to like it.
I don't understand you two, both encouraging your lovers to cheat on you.
I understand if you don't want to get involved.
Although I can't, for the life of me, understand why you wouldn't want to impress her.
You must understand how important that is?
No. She can't understand how sure I was she wouldn't hurt me.
Why couldn't Katie understand that there was a principle involved?
He can understand a career in real estate.
Josh is religious, but there aren't many men who would claim to understand women.
How could he possibly understand?
If I live to be a thousand years old I'll never understand them.
I understand you have friends doing your chores, and your hospital bill has already been paid through tomorrow, so stop worrying and complete your convalescence.
I don't know if a man can understand this, but I want to hold a baby in my arms and know it's a part of me and the man I love.
No. You don't understand.
Let me start all over - in a way I know you'll understand.
If I live to be a thousand years old, I'll never understand it.
He'd surmised she was somewhere this side of the Mississippi, but he couldn't understand how she didn't know how bad it was.
Water, I can understand.
Imaging of the mountain flashed off and was replaced by a screen full of colors and letters Brady didn't understand.
She definitely wouldn't understand a world like this one.
Do you understand? he demanded.
I think you understand how vulnerable you are here.
I don't expect someone like you to understand.
Brady, I don't understand you.
I understand what I need to.
No guarantee we'll survive the night, but you probably understand that.
I understand you want to cross the river.
I understand. Is that all you came to tell me?
He said nothing, aware the creature before him wasn't capable of communicating a truth in a way most others could understand. Death was from a time before time. He would never understand what she saw when she looked out over humanity and saw its Past, Present, Future, and the soul of each human that ever lived. The size of her vision rendered her unique interpretations puzzling, even to him.
He didn't understand both their concern and eagerness to get rid of him, but felt familiar coldness settle into his chest. There had been two other people in the entirety of the universe that cared for him, and the two people with him now were not the same.
Toby was silent, knowing a normal Immortal could never understand. He didn't yet have the full power of a real guardian angel, but he should've been able to do more than … nothing. Angels were placed with human mothers so they could understand the creatures they were meant to take care of. Human mothers raised them as their own, yet none of his human mothers had gone to the extent Katie did to try to protect him.
He is not, but he is a warrior worthy of her attention in battle. The Immortals always say, at least they understand Darkyn.
Rhyn does understand, but he can't control what he is. Even if he wanted to do good, he'd fail. He's too weak to control his impulses, Kris.
Her bizarre changes of subject made him understand why Andre hadn't liked dealing with her. Was there hidden meaning in her words?
Then maybe you wouldn't understand but they were what marriage is supposed to be.
Dean could not understand someone voluntarily subjecting themselves to the tedium of the molasses-process of justice.
There were some things about the business world Dean would never understand.
I can't understand it.
I can understand why.
We understand they give swimming lessons there.
I understand from Mrs. Glass he was back in town but has moved out, so you don't have to worry.
She needed someone who would listen and understand a little.
Maybe I'm not smart enough to understand it but I deserve to know.
We've got an address now and understand he's back from vacation.
You've got to understand the guy, he didn't want to have anything to do with the dough.
I never could understand how Winston was so positive the person you were following was Jeff when you knew all along it was that other horrid man.
But I understand why you did it.
Why couldn't a mature male understand that without being told?
He seemed to understand so much.
Maybe he'd understand about the place on the mountain.
I understand it depends on the individual.
I just want to understand your relationship.
She was the only one who would probably understand her concern for Brutus.
It was difficult to understand why she had been looking forward to this moment for so long, but wasn't ecstatic now that it had finally arrived.
He might not appreciate the china the way she did, but he would understand and support her desire to make use of it.
I don't understand you women.
I think now I understand how he felt about her.
Mums would understand, and Mums would keep it confidential.
Magic is a child's interpretation of a miracle, or anything they can't understand.
Maybe he did understand.
Even if she could explain, he wouldn't understand the gnawing fear that drove her from their favorite spot.
Even she didn't even understand it.
I understand Josh, but not Lori.
One day, you'll understand.
She'd watched him go from a near-comatose state, through his teenager stage that nearly drove them all mad, to the gym-obsessed warrior trying to understand his place in the world.
He suspected she was relieved he was leaving, even if he didn't understand why.
Someone who could love her and understand how important it was that she remained her own person.
I think I understand now.
But I understand what you're feeling.
He began to understand her reluctance to be involved with him and how thick the walls around her heart were, if she spent the years since the Schism learning how to shut people and emotion out.
He didn't question anyone or anything, and I couldn't understand his world, she began.
I won't accept you, if you don't understand that about me.
I hope you understand.
Taran did not understand the need for her to return so soon, but the woman was beyond any man's control.
Sami, I don't understand what's happening!
Our numbers have plummeted the past year, and I don't understand the placement of our army.
I don't understand it, but the secret is in here, he said, presenting the book.
She rubbed the area beneath her collarbone with a frown, unable to understand the demon's movement.
But as a man, I understand it would have been easier for you
Yes, she could understand why she would walk gladly into death's arms.
You must understand I have too much to do here to help you.
You might say I understand better why you feel as you do about Landis.
Jonathan and Destiny might understand, but the twins wouldn't.
Am I to understand you would like to get away from our children?
I understand he goes by Rob.
He eyed her for a moment, as though he couldn't understand why she didn't know.
Whether it was the way he did it or they simply didn't understand, there was no wailing as she had anticipated.
Natalie and Matthew were probably too young to understand, but Jonathan did.
Yes, I understand why Alex doesn't want me to come up here alone.
But seeing all this, I can understand.
I don't understand the tension between him and his father.
What I don't understand is why you didn't get Rob to go up there with you.
I understand the rest of them were gone, but he was there at the house.
I'm only trying to understand why you think it's inappropriate.
They spoke in broken English, but they appeared to understand what she wanted.
She was the one who insisted on having a man who would wear the pants – even if she didn't fully understand what that encompassed.
If he didn't understand the difference, it wasn't going to do any good to explain it.
But then, not being married, how could he understand what was required to sustain a marriage?
Look, I understand why you want to hurt me right now, but how can you do this to your own children?
I understand it's been in the family for a long time.
I don't understand it.
How could she expect Denton to understand her dream of purchasing the place?
His attempts at braiding her dark hair the way she liked it had ended up in a series of knots, because he didn't quite understand how to do it and his man-sized fingers were too clumsy.
His mother never held a grudge against his father, and suddenly, Xander didn't understand why not.
She didn't fully understand why.
He didn't understand the difference between an immortal warrior and a human child, between opponent and innocent.
Of all the White God's brothers, Dusty was the one most likely to understand Xander's position.
Older and wiser, Xander was aware of what she did now, just as he was starting to understand the identity crisis that caused Eden to seek him out.
He still didn't understand the question Sofi wanted him to know, but the fact the woman capable of operating on stealth-mode was the answer did not set well with him.
You'll understand if I don't trust you out of my sight.
Jessi watched Xander move for a moment, unable to shake the sense there was more to him than she was able to understand.
I didn't understand why I had to do it, until you told me that you couldn't hear my thoughts.
To understand this series of Lotze's writings, it is necessary to begin with his definition of philosophy.
To understand Lotze's philosophy, a careful and repeated perusal of these works is absolutely necessary.
Here her character was shaped; here she imbibed that passionate love of country scenes and country life which neither absence, politics nor dissipation could uproot; here she learnt to understand the ways and thoughts of the peasants, and laid up that rich store of scenes and characters which a marvellously retentive memory enabled her to draw upon at will.
The Ibn Tibbon family thus rendered conspicuous services to European culture, and did much to further among Jews who did not understand Arabic the study of science and philosophy.
The dialects differ very much in different parts of the island, so that those who speak one often cannot understand those who speak another, and use Italian as the medium of communication.
But in process of time he learnt to understand the importance of British counsels.
The book will contain four essays, all in French, with the general title of Project of a Universal science, capable of raising our nature to its highest perfection; also Dioptrics, Meteors and Geometry, wherein the most curious matters which the author could select as a proof of the universal science which he proposes are explained in such a way that even the unlearned may understand them.'
Perceiving further, that in order to understand these relations I should sometimes have to consider them one by one, and sometimes only to bear them in mind or embrace them in the aggregate, I thought that, in order the better to consider them individually, I should view them as subsisting between straight lines, than which I could find no objects more simple, or capable of being more distinctly represented to my imagination and senses; and on the other hand that, in order to retain them in the memory or embrace an aggregate of many, I should express them by certain characters, the briefest possible."
In truth therefore these attributes do not belong to body at all; and if we go on in the same way testing the received qualities of matter, we shall find that in the last resort we understand nothing by it but extension, with the secondary and derivative characters of divisibility and mobility.
Yet it would seem there had been a still higher pitch used in the old ecclesiastical music. Upon this interesting question Praetorius is confused and difficult to understand, but he never wavers about the transposition of a fourth.
In the absence of literary culture the Albanian dialects, as might be expected, are widely divergent; the limits of the two principal dialects correspond with the racial boundaries of the Ghegs and Tosks, who understand each other with difficulty; the Albanians in Greece and Italy have also separate dialects.
As a thorough Spaniard who did not even understand the language of his Netherland subjects Philip was from the first distrusted and his acts regarded with suspicion.
Few men have been so courageous, and his influence was magnetic. Even the rough Szeklers, though they did not understand the language of their "little father," regarded him with superstitious reverence.
But before long he came to understand, as no other commander of the age save Gustavus understood it, the value of true "shock-action."
He is a barbarian to others and they to him, since they cannot understand what is spoken by him.
And he who would understand what he remembers to have been said, whether in a dream or when he was awake, by the prophetic and enthusiastic nature, or what he has seen, must first recover his wits; and then he will be able to explain rationally what all 1 This misunderstanding of Acts ii.
There seems no good reason why in modern performances the pianoforte should not be used for the purpose; if only accompanists can be trained to acquire the necessary delicacy of touch, and can be made to understand that, if they cannot extemporize the necessary polyphony, and so have to play something definitely written for them, it is not a mass of interesting detail which they are to bring to the public ear.
In order to understand the future history of Italy, it is necessary to form a clear conception of the method pursued by the Lombards in their conquest.
Yet neither the acts by which their league was ratified nor the terms negotiated for them by their patron Alexander evince the smallest desire of what we now understand as national independence.
If we understand by theism not simple belief in a divine unity, but such faith in one divine person as will constitute the basis for a popular religion, then - unless we allow a doubtful exception in Zoroastrianism.
He is a most difficult writer; different readers understand him differently; and he uses in the earlier parts of his Critique of Pure Reason much of the language of intuitionalism.
A very considerable body of knowledge relating to this subject already exists, but further work on experimental lines is urgently required to enable us to understand the actual economy of plants growing under different conditions of life and the true relation of the hereditary anatomical characters which form the subject matter of systematic anatomy to those which vary according to the conditions in which the individual plant is placed.
The problem is a very difficult one and cannot be regarded as definitely settled, but it is difficult to understand why all this additional complexity in the division of the nucleus should be necessary if the final result is only a quantitative separation of the chromatin.
His argument as to the narrowness of the sea between West Africa and East Asia, from the occurrence of elephants at both extremities, is difficult to understand, although it shows that he looked on the distribution of animals as a problem of geography.
His adroitness in intrigue and his fascinating manners were exceptional even in an age when such qualities formed part of every statesman's education; but the characteristics which ensured him success in the House of Lords and in the royal closet led to failure in his attempts to understand the feelings of the mass of his countrymen.
Although the scala tympani is so rudimentary, not reaching a higher level than in most of the reptiles, and remaining far below the mammalia, birds do not only hear extremely well, but they distinguish between and " understand " pitch, notes and melodies.
By the "fathers," then, we understand the whole of extant Christian literature from the time of the apostles to the rise of scholasticism or the beginning of the middle ages.
In 1875 Bismarck was suspected of a design of again attacking France, and Gorchakov gave him to understand, in a way which was not meant to be offensive, but which roused the German chancellor's indignation, that Russia would oppose any such scheme.
The Roman case is often misunderstood, because the later Roman writers did not fully understand the case themselves.
In these courts the ordinary written law had little to say; the decisions of the volost courts were based on the local customary law, which alone the peasants, and the peasants alone, understand.
Pepys, a far more trustworthy judge, speaks of him invariably in terms of respect and approval as a " grave, serious man," and commends his appointment as treasurer of the navy as that of " a very notable man and understanding and will do things regular and understand them himself."
In addition to the ordinary suffrage qualifications of age, sex, and residence, the voter must have paid all taxes due from him for the two years immediately preceding the election, and he must be able to read any section of the constitution or "be able to understand the same when read to him, or give a reasonable interpretation thereof."
I also observe that some external links should be allowed, particularly to Wikipedia, but understand the need to keep spammers at bay.
In that case, all who accept a revelation without professing to understand its content would require to be ranked as mystics; the fierce sincerity of Tertullian's credo quia ab-' surdum, Pascal's reconciliation of contradictions in Jesus Christ, and Bayle's half-sneering subordination of reason to faith would all be marks of this standpoint.
It is indeed easy to understand that the romantic incidents of this period were much in the mouths of the people - to whom David was a popular hero - and in course of time were written down in various forms which were not combined into perfect harmony by later editors, who gave excerpts from several sources rather than a new and independent history.
The scientific study of practical problems and difficulties is (generally speaking, and with honourable exceptions) far more advanced in almost every civilized country than it is in England, where the limited scale upon which such work is carried on, the indifference of statesmen, officials and business men, and the incapacity of the public to understand the close relation between scientific study and practical success, contrast very unfavourably with the state of affairs in Germany or the United States.
In order to understand the sharp swing of the political pendulum back from republicanism to autocracy which took place at Brumaire, it is needful to remember that the virtual failure of the Egyptian Expedition was then unknown.
In order to understand the utter inability of the old republican party to withstand these changes, it is needful to retrace our steps and consider the skilful use made by Bonaparte of plots and disturbances as they occurred.
We have no means of explaining this statement, nor can we fully understand all the incidents connected with his usurpation; but the attempts of modern authors to prove that Gaumata in reality was the genuine Smerdis and Darius a usurper have failed.
But that view which admits a life of God that is not benumbed in an unchangeable sameness will be able to understand his eternal co-working as a variable quantity, the transforming influence of which comes forth at particular moments and attests that the course of nature is not shut up within itself.
In this "Neander's chief aim was everywhere to understand what was individual in history.
One can readily understand the popularity of the Crusades, when one reflects that they permitted men to get to the other world by fighting hard on earth, and allowed them to gain the fruits of asceticism by the ways of hedonism.
Finally, when one remembers how, during the First Crusade, the pedites had marched side by side with the principes, and how, from the beginning of 1099, they had practically risen in revolt against the selfish ambitions of princes like Count Raymund, it becomes easy to understand the independent position which the burgesses assumed in the organization of the kingdom.
Later, all that we understand by Syria came to be so known officially to the Romans and Byzantines; but the only province called simply Syria, without qualification, remained in the Orontes valley.
While the Malays were famous almost exclusively for their piratical expeditions they naturally bore an evil reputation among Europeans, but now that we have come into closer Character, contact with them,, and have learned to understand aca them better, the old opinions concerning them have been greatly modified.
This is achieved; and Briinnhilde's horror and bewilderment at meeting Siegfried again as a stranger in his own shape creates a situation which Siegfried cannot understand, and which Hagen pretends to construe as damning evidence that Siegfried has betrayed Gunther's honour as well as Briinnhilde's.
How all this operated we shall understand when we examine the remarkable organization of the state introduced by Diocletian and his successors.
In 1781 he writes," I cannot but observe that these were the first rudiments of the Methodist societies."In the presence of such facts we can understand the significance of the mission to Georgia.
We understand what is meant and neither desire nor demand a strict definition.
The better to understand the point of view of the Cape Dutch and the burghers of the Transvaal and Orange Free State, Milner also during this period learned both Dutch and the South African "Taal."
They manufacture copper boilers for making sugar and understand several trades, weave ponchos and hammocks and make straw hats.
To appreciate his diagnoses it is necessary to understand certain terms, which unfortunately are not used in the same sense by all authors.
Next, it must be carefully remembered that the early church was, in a sense hard for us even to understand, ruled and edified by the direct action of the Holy Spirit.
The counties were administered by imperial officials, Germans, Czechs and Galicians, who did not understand the Magyar tongue.
On the other hand the Austrians pointed out that not only would failure to understand each other's language cause fatal confusion on a battlefield, but also tend to disintegrate the forces even in peace time.
At first sight it appears difficult to understand how g PP the complicated series of actions which are definitely exhibited as so-called " instincts " by a variety of animals can have been due to the selection of congenital variations, or can be otherwise explained than by the transmission of habits acquired by the parent as the result of experience, and continuously elaborated and added to in successive generations.
When we thus understand its origin, the tradition becomes really instructive, and may be translated into a statement which throws light on a number of points connected with the book, namely, that the Psalter was (finally, at least) collected with a liturgical purpose.
But against this explanation of the heading ry;p' 2 there is an almost insuperable objection; for, since both the first and second books contain psalms with this heading, it is clear that the " Chief Musician's - or Director's - Psalter " must have been in existence before either of these books; in which case, apart from the difficulty of the antiquity which we should be compelled to assign to this earliest Psalter, it is impossible to understand on what principle the first book of Psalms was formed.
And it is not too much to say that that view - which to some extent appears in the historical psalms of the Ehohistic Psalter - implies absolute incapacity to understand the difference between old Israel and later Judaism, and makes almost anything possible in the way of the ascription of comparatively modern pieces to ancient authors.
That every one who has capacity to understand the law is presumed to know it is a very necessary principle, for otherwise the courts would be continually occupied in endeavouring to solve problems which by their very impracticability would render the administration of justice next to impossible.
In times of persecution the martyrs were buried among the rest of the faithful, but one can understand that their tombs, at which gatherings took place at least on the day of their anniversary, were distinguished from the ordinary tombs by some sign.
It is difficult to understand a much-discussed passage of Origen (De oratione, 14), except as applying to prayer addressed to the saints.
How are we to understand these conflicting, though not irreconcilable, testimonies?
The human organism is far too complex to enable us to understand the true significance of diseased processes.
This may best be answered by defining what we understand by health.
It would be unprofitable to attempt a complete analysis of the Brunonian system; and it is difficult now to understand why it attracted so much attention in its day.
In answer to this contention it may be said that, although the silence of the Chronicle is difficult to understand, it is almost impossible to believe that the very existence of the most important city in the country could suddenly cease and the inhabitants disappear without some special notice.
It is not easy, however, to understand how it was that when the first parishes were formed so small an area was attached to each.
The patrocinium they were made ready to understand by the existence of a somewhat similar institution among themselves, the comitatus, described by Tacitus.
To understand the feudal state it is essential to make clear to one's mind that all sorts of services, which men ordinarily owe to the public or to one another, were translated into a form of rent paid for the use of land, and defined and enforced by a private contract.
Mill applied to them again, but with the exception of Grote, who sent a small sum, they gave Comte to understand that they expected him to earn his own living.
You cannot discover the relations of the facts of human society without reference to the conditions of animal life; you cannot understand the conditions of animal life without the laws of chemistry; and so with the rest.
With respect to his attacks on the critical philosophy in the Metakritik (1799), it is easy to understand how his concrete mind, ever alive to the unity of things, instinctively rebelled against that analytic separation of the mental processes which Kant attempted.
But to understand these in their mutual and explanatory relations it will be necessary to exhibit the conditions under which his thought grew into consistency and system.
Standard Chinese soon became easier to understand than archaic Japanese, as the former alone was taught in the schools, and the native language changed rapidly during the century or two that followed the diffusion of the foreign tongue and civilization (CnAMBERLAIN).
To understand this 17th century renaissance, knowledge of one fact is necessary, namely, that about the year A.D.
Such recitations were given by itinerant Bonzes, and it is easy to understand the connection between them and the No.
Railways.It is easy to understand that an enterprise like railway construction, requiring a great outlay of capital with returns long delayed, did not at first commend itself to the Japanese, who were almost entirely ignorant of co-operation as a factor of business organization.
But there are no reasons for thinking the performance ironical or insincere, and it cannot be doubted that Defoe would have been honestly unable even to understand Lamb's indignation.
But Amy, scarcely by her own fault, is drawn into certain breaches of definite moral laws which Defoe did understand, and she is therefore condemned, with hardly a word of pity, to a miserable end.
The main cause of the humiliations William suffered from parliament lay in his incapacity to understand the party or cabinet system.
Hence his mistakes though easy to understand are by no means so pardonable as were, for example, those of the Georges, who had been absolute monarchs in their own country.
By looking at them together we understand how much the comedy of Terence was able to do to refine and humanize the manners of Rome, but at the same time what a solvent it was of the discipline and ideas of the old republic. What makes Terence an important witness of the culture of his time is that he wrote from the centre of the Scipionic circle, in which what was most humane and liberal in Roman statesmanship was combined with the appreciation of what was most vital in the Greek thought and literature of the time.
Alliances with various land powers, and an inability to understand the true relations which alone could unite the league, combined to alienate the allies, who could discover no reason for the expenditure of their contributions on protecting Sparta or Corinth against Thebes.
People who cannot scry may have these hypnagogic illusions, and, so far, may partly understand the experience of the scryer who is wide awake.
If every other contemporary record of the crusades perished, we should still be able by aid of this to understand and realize what the mental attitude of crusaders, of Teutonic knights, and the rest was, and without this we should lack the earliest, the most undoubtedly genuine, and the most characteristic of all such records.
In their origin they were designed to meet the needs of the unlearned among the people who had ceased to understand the Hebrew of the Old Testament.
The Maltese, of whom 86% cannot understand Italian, are still liable to be tried, even for their lives, in Italian, to them a foreign language.
The endeavour to restrict juries to those who understand Italian reveals glaring incongruities.
With the continuance of military power over details, the public could not understand where responsibility really rested.
A regulation excluding Maltese from the navy (because of their speaking on board a language that their officers did not understand) provoked from Trinity College, Cambridge, the Strickland correspondence in The Times on the constitutional rights of the Maltese, and a leading article induced the Colonial Office to try an experiment known as the Strickland-Mizzi Constitution of 1887.
Thus, when it is said that the first y ear of the Incarnation corresponds to the first of the 195th Olympiad, we are to understand that it is only with respect to the last six months of that year that the correspondence takes place.
The old chant of the Salii, called axamenta, was written in the old Saturnian metre, in language so archaic that even the priests themselves could hardly understand it.
It is not easy to understand the spirit in which the author of the Principe sat down to exchange obscenities with the author of the Sommario della storia d'Italia.
Those who care to understand the contradictions of which such a character was capable should study his correspondence with Vettori.
The idea of adult baptism, which had after 1525 become generally accepted among them, roused a bitterness which it is rather hard to understand nowadays.
To understand the philosophical theory that has come to be known under this title, we may ask (I) what in general it is and how it is differentiated from other theories of knowledge and reality, (2) how it has risen in the history of philosophy, (3) what position it occupies at present in the world of speculation.
It is easy to understand how English empiricism issued at once in the trenchant naturalism of Hobbes.
The truth is, without doubt, that the dwellings of the lower classes were still built of reeds and mud, and covered the greater part of the city's area, otherwise it is impossible to understand how a mere handful of Spanish soldiers, without tools and explosives, could so easily have levelled it to the ground.
Remembering the organization of the tribe everywhere prevalent, it is not difficult to understand that the army, or horde, that stands for the idea, was assembled on the clan basis.
There he studied the New Testament in the editions of Erasmus and began to found his preaching on "the Gospel," which he declared to be simple and easy to understand.
Reiske's linguistic knowledge was great, but he used it only to understand his authors; he had no feeling for form, for language as language, or for metre.
He made capital of the Socialist agitation and of the repression to which other statesmen resorted, and gave the agitators to understand that were he premier they would be allowed a free hand.
In order to understand St Benedict's character and spirit, and to discover the secret of the success of his institute, it is necessary, as St Gregory says, to turn to his Rule.
Any pagan who wished to understand and criticize Christianity intimately had to begin by learning from the Jews, and this accounts for the opening chapters of his argument.
Thus we can understand how in Gen.
If the Minaeans were later immigrants from Hadramut, we can understand how they are not mentioned in Gen.
In order to understand the attitude which the Free State took at this time in relation to the Transvaal, it is necessary to review the history of Mr Reitz from an earlier date.
The people didn't understand.
That science must be left free to determine the aims of her investigation, to select and apply her own methods, and to publish the results of her researches without restraint, is a postulate which Ultramontanism either cannot understand or treats with indifference, for it regards as strange and incredible the fundamental law governing all scientific research - that there is for it no higher aim than the discovery of the truth.
He was anxious to make sure that his readers would understand his exact meaning, and to guard them against all possible misconceptions.
Eminently truthful, he could not understand that some verbal insincerities are necessary to social life.
In these circumstances the intrusion of Germanic elements into ecclesiastical law is easy to understand.
He took as his starting-point the traditional faith; but he was convinced that whoever has experience of the truths of the faith would be able to understand them.
It was easy, therefore, to understand why Anselm's method did not become the dominant one in theology.
None extend farther to the westward than the valley of the Indus,' which, considering the nature of the country in Baluchistan and Afghanistan, is perhaps intelligible enough; but it is not so easy to understand why none are found either in Cochin China or China proper; and they are also wanting in the Philippine Islands, which is the more remarkable and instructive when we find how abundant they are in the groups a little farther to the southward.
It is from this point of view that we must seek to understand the so-called Montanistic crisis.
Stewart gives us to understand that he had, as early as 1752, adopted the liberal views of commercial policy which he afterwards preached; and this we should have been inclined to believe independently from the fact that such views I These two numbers were reprinted in 1818.
There is also a spiritual chewing of the body of Christ, not such that by it we understand the very food to be changed into spirit, but such that, the body and blood of the Lord abiding in their essence and peculiarity, they are spiritually communicated to us, not in any corporeal way, but in a spiritual, through the Holy Spirit which applies and bestows on us those things which were prepared through the flesh and blood of the Lord betrayed for our sake to death, to wit, remission of sins, liberation and life eternal, so that Christ lives in us and we in him...
It is their analogue, and to understand it we must understand them, not forgetting that Paul, as a Semite, and his hearers, as converted pagans, were imbued with the sacrificial ideas of the old world.
Such considerations help us to understand the enormous importance attached in ancient societies to the right of intermarriage, as also to grasp the origin of wills and testaments.
It is not a government, as Europeans understand the term, but a group of heads of departments, whom their chief, though he usually consults them separately, often finds it useful to bring together for a talk about current politics and the course proper for the administration to take in them, or in order to settle some administrative question which lies on the borderland between the provinces of two ministers.
The physical geography of Canada is so closely bound up with its geology that at least an outline of the geological factors involved in its history is necessary to understand the present physiography.
Other points in the modification of the typical ctenidium must be noted in order to understand the ctenidium of Anodonta.