H. G. Carpenter (A); 12Dec67; R423979. CARPENTER, M. F. Cooperative literary comprehension test.

H. G. Carpenter (A); 12Dec67; R423979. CARPENTER, M. F. Cooperative literary comprehension test.

Test of mechanical comprehension.

A thorough comprehension of the events of the first Punic war enables us to solve what, until Mahan wrote, had been one of the standing enigmas of history, viz.

We have a heightened sense of the demands which life makes and a better comprehension of the "far-off divine event" toward which we move, after we have heard Swinburne's ringing call: "...this thing is God, To be man with thy might, To grow straight in the strength of thy spirit, and live out thy life as the light.

As a popular leader, the advantage which daring would have given him is more than counterpoised by an acuteness and refinement of mind which have no sympathy with the mass of men, and which they in turn are likely to distrust from imperfect comprehension.

And he, her husband, who had never meant that his love should fail her, could have spared her all this pain by a little comprehension!

"By Jove!" said Deppingham, starting up with a look of horror in his eyes, sudden comprehension rushing down upon him.

The moral arguments, though separated from those which are either political or temporary, are sufficient to overpower the strongest reason, and overflow the most extensive comprehension.

I can only hope to leave your mind with an intuitive comprehension of the possibility of what I say.

No intelligent person can study Shakespeare without becoming a deeper and more varied thinker, without securing a broader comprehension of human existence,its struggles, failures, and successes.

They told him all there was to tell in the deadly, impersonal way of hospitals, while he nodded swift comprehension.

Perhaps this is the speech in all the play of which it is most difficult to get into a sympathetic comprehension.

Andrassy, with his quick sympathies and instant comprehension of all sides of a question, attracted him very much.

Mrs Norton, as has been said, was capable of understanding much in the abstract; so long as things, and ideas of things, did not come within the circle of her practical life, they were judged from a liberal standpoint, but so soon as they touched any personal consideration, they were judged by a moral code that in no way corresponded to her intellectual comprehension of the matter she so unhesitatingly condemned.

Wherever a word differs from the modern word only in spelling, I have, for the sake of readier comprehension, substituted the modern form, with the following exception:Where the spelling indicates a different pronunciation, necessary for the rhyme or the measure, I retain such part of the older form, marking with an acute accent any vowel now silent which must be sounded.

When coolly examined, at the distance of a century, the Royalist combination for the suppression of equality before the law, as finally evolved in 1792, did not so much lack military intelligence, as it lacked any approximate comprehension of the modern mind.

I am, as you know, a German of no very subtle comprehension.

He was honest, frugal, and diligent, but of mean sentiments, and narrow comprehension; he desired only to be rich, and to conceal his riches, lest he should be spoiled by the governours of the province.

And as the minde in her vast comprehension, Contains more worlds than all the world can finde.

He huddles a new thought on the one before it, before the first has had time to express itself; he sees things or analyses emotions so swiftly and subtly himself that he forgets the slower comprehensions of his readers; he is for analysing things far deeper than the ordinary mind commonly can.

His system as a system has crumbled, but his vital comprehension of our life remains forever.'

It was pleasant to sit on his mother's knee and with his great blue eyes watch those monster horses jogging along dragging after them the great world, which in his limited comprehension was all the world he knew,the covered wagon.

"He would start from some particular point and work his way point by point down to the minutest detail, not bewildering by a multiplicity of facts, but keeping them all in order with perfect handling, until the framing of the whole thing stood out luminously clear to the dullest comprehension.

Graham's face revealed the same helpless comprehension.