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With the study of history and the earnest investigation of these lives of the past, new possibilities arise within the human family. The next race that flowers may take longer to decay because it understands better the weaknesses that carried away the preceding civilization. In time there will arise a civilization that understands the past.

His allusions and learned periphrases elucidate nothing; they put an idle labour on the reader who understands them, and extort from baffled ignorance, at which, perhaps, they are more especially aimed, a foolish admiration.

It is a sort of metropolis of this district, and there is a good deal of capital in the place. And it has some firstrate institutions. There's the Manchester Bank. That's a noble institution, full of commercial enterprise; understands the age, sir; high-pressure to the backbone. I came up to town to see the manager to-day.

Did you ever hear of a really pretty girl being like that?" "I hope Doctor Queerington likes her as well as you do." "Heavens, man! everybody likes her; you can't help it. But nobody understands her. You see they look on her as a child; they haven't the faintest conception of what she is going through." "And you think you have?" "I know it. She's trying to adjust herself, and she can't.

They further hold the wearing of the six so-called 'mudra' badges and the like to be means to accomplish the highest end of man. Thus the Kapalas say, 'He who knows the true nature of the six mudras, who understands the highest mudra, meditating on himself as in the position called bhagasana, reaches Nirvana.

He talked to her as a man talks who loves a horse, understands it as he might talk to a human being. And Big Bill, watching, nodded and grunted approval as he saw Shandon slip the hard bit between the strong teeth, and at last swing up into the saddle and turn a high spirited but well trained and obedient mare down the valley after the runaways.

Probably no young woman quite understands the deep devotion she has inspired in the bosom of a small boy even when she realises which is rare indeed that she is regarded with unusual affection by Tommy or Billy or Jim.

'You see, she said to the Dictator, 'he understands me! I have been saying in Sicilian patois that he is a hired assassin born in England of Sicilian parents, and brought up, probably, near Snow Hill and this Whitechapel gentleman understood every word I said!

"I am afraid, however, that our friend wishes he were not quite so old a friend." "No, papa," I said; "you are, mistaken. I am sure Mr. Dinwiddie does not think so. He knows better." "How does he know better?" "I think he understands, papa." "What?" "Me." "What about you?" "I think he thinks only that, what I said, papa." "And how came you to think he thinks anything about it?" "Papa "

It is a spirit which neither understands itself nor the object at which it is aiming.