We must attempt to realise the working of his mind, if we are to gain a comprehension of the original position of Islam with regard to Christianity.

Page averred that the whole affair had always passed his comprehension, "what that ease-loving, vain, indulgent, trivial-minded grandson of Henri Quatre could ever have seen for all those years in that stiff, prim, cold old school-ma'am"

"It is beyond my comprehension," replied the leader in a voice which removed all distrust of him.

I know how it moves me, but I cannot tell you; I cannot even tell myself.' Vistas of comprehension opened out before me.

It passes comprehension.'

It need not be much or long continued if we start with a fair comprehension of each other.

" Then for the first time the inherent strength of the quietness of the one man as opposed to the obvious quickness and comprehension of the other came into play.

In the flash of awful comprehension he dropped, a sickened and nerveless heap, beside the dead man, turning his head on the ground, and feeling for any sign of life at his heart.

But most of them could have been written about Haman, or Heliogabalus, or King John, or Queen Elizabeth, as much as about poor Louis Napoleon; they bear no trace of any comprehension of his quite interesting aims, and his quite comprehensible contempt for the fat-souled senatorial politicians.

It is simply this; that if Teutonism be used for comprehension it cannot be used for conquest.

Your knowledge of complex human nature isn't nearly as big as your heart, and the Latham set are wholly beyond your ken and comprehension."

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

This teaching, which is alike repugnant to the true definition of an adjective, to the true rule for its construction, and to all the exceptions to this rule, is but a sample of that hasty sort of induction, which is ever jumping to false conclusions for want of a fair comprehension of the facts in point.

The term Syllepsis literally signifies conception, comprehension, or taking-together.

See Luke, xvi, 29. V. Synecdoche, (that is, Comprehension,) is the naming of a part for the whole, or of the whole for a part; as, (1.)

"To stand prompter to a pausing yet ready comprehension.

Synecdoche, (comprehension,) explained.

They also indicated her capacity for imaginative insight into the motives and impulses of human nature, and an intuitive comprehension of what is most natural to human thought and action.

This larger comprehension gives a new significance to her interpretation of evolution.

A brief account of the successive philosophic influences which most directly and personally touched her mind will largely help towards the comprehension of her teachings.

STROEBE, LILLIAN L. Reading comprehension tests In German.

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"No," said the captain, "it could not have been a Rackbird, but who he was, and where he has gone, is beyond my comprehension.

When the artist sang a part in those lyric tragedies of which Grétry says: "They are the very expression of truth," it seemed as if the illustrious chevalier lived again in him to win better comprehension than ever before and to be avenged at last for all the injustice and bad taste from which he had suffered.