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• It is one of the mysteries which people who have never been connected with a great army have greatest difficulty in comprehending, that an army advancing into such a country as we were now threatening, must have ample and easy communications with its base of supplies. —  Three Years in the Sixth Corps A Concise Narrative of Events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the Close of the Rebellion, April, 1865
• There are certain thoughts, principles, ideas, which by their nature rule over all knowledge, which are intrinsically glorious, quickening, all-comprehending, eternal, and with these I desire to enrich the mind of the laborer and of every human being To illustrate my meaning, let me give a few examples of the great ideas which belong to the study or science of mind. —  Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American
• The religion of the early days of Rome was perhaps all that so rude a people were capable of comprehending--all that they wanted. —  Aurelian or, Rome in the Third Century
• "The German poor," he puns, "are not wiser than the poor Germans, that is, they can nowhere see beyond their hearth, their factory, their district: the whole question has so far been neglected by the all-comprehending political soul In order to be able to compare the condition of the German workers with the condition of the French and English workers, "Prussian" must compare the first manifestation, the beginning of the English and French Labour movement, with the German movement which has just begun. —  Selected Essays
• The throng of savages, without comprehending a word, listened in awe-struck silence After distributing gifts, the Frenchmen, with a blast of trumpets, marched out and were led to the top of a neighboring mountain. —  French Pathfinders in North America

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