derstand

• Nor can I un- derstand, with what reason either Mr. Percival (whom I am singular enough to regard as the best and wisest minister of this reign) or the present administration, can be said to have pursued the plans of Mr. PITT. The love of their country, and perseverant hostility to French principles and French ambition are indeed honourable qualities common to them and to their predecessor. —  Biographia Literaria
• Socrates in Plato shows, that an ignorant slave may be brought to un- derstand and of himself to solve the most dif- ficult geometrical problem. —  Biographia Literaria
• [9] The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately corrupt; who can un - derstand it? —  Latest Articles
• Set down with you, and talk with you, and make you un - derstand —  Riley Farm-Rhymes
• And as everybody well may understand, 'derstand,' derstand, —  The Battery and the Boiler Adventures in Laying of Submarine Electric Cables

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