cause to understand

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In Galileo's it was due to a more insidious cause, to understand which cause aright we must remember the political divisions of Italy at that date.

From Pioneers of Science by Lodge, Oliver, Sir

So that his saying passed from my mind, until one day when I should have cause to understand it well enough.

From Wulfric the Weapon Thane by Whistler, Charles W. (Charles Watts)

He was among the first to adopt and advocate the use of anæsthetics, for no man had had more cause to understand the necessity of such assistants.

From Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made by McCabe, James Dabney

If beuk wont do't, then Jockey shoot, For the Church of Scotland doth command; And what hath been since they came in I think we have cause to understand.

From Cavalier Songs and Ballads of England from 1642 to 1684 by Mackay, Charles