They wisely concluded to determine abstract ideas first and concrete forms later.

Another that hath better observed, adds to shining yellow great weight: and then the sound gold, when he uses it, stands for a complex idea of a shining yellow and a very weighty substance.

We had a vague idea of going back to America, and Paris seemed a first step in that directionwas nearer New York than Rome.

It was like none of these; but if you could imagine them all combined, and concentrated into a single sound, and ushered together upon the air from a single throat, shaped like the long neck of some gigantic ichthiosaurus of the times of old, you would have some faint idea of the strange sounds that came roaring up from that hollow way.

I haven't the slightest idea where he could have got it.

Among the sublimer tenets of the druidical priesthood, we have every where apparent proofs of their polytheism: and the grossness of their religious ideas, as represented by some writers, is very inconsistent with that divine philosophy which has been considered as a part of their character.

Surprise grew in my mind without any very distinct idea of the reason of it; and it was not till after a chance conversation with Morphew that my vague uneasiness began to take definite shape.

The mountains, by which the valley was hemmed in, were utterly impassable, thickly set as they were with jungle, consisting of tangled brier, thorn and forest trees, of which those who have never been in a tropical climate can form no adequate idea.

Two or three real incidents sometimes give a better idea of a man's character than pages of generalities.

Our contempt and distrust do not mean that our fundamental ideas about language are unsound.

I should say decidedly no definite idea.

Sunday was a great day in Innisfield; for there, as in all Puritan communities, religion was the central and engrossing idea.

Then he had a more brilliant idea; to go into the office as cheerily as ever, and say to Mitchell pleasantly, 'We're looking forward to next Saturday, old chap,' pretending to have believed from the first that the invitation had been for the Saturday week; and that the dinner was still to come....

The great error of many juvenile books is their deviation from truth; and as so much is absolutely necessary to be taught, why add to the labour by impressing false ideas on the mind of an infant, and thus lose the opportunity of making amusement the vehicle to convey instruction?

"Neither bust nor picture, however, gives a correct idea of her, except in the outline of the head and shoulders.

The children, most of whose fathers worked on the railway, lived in the surrounding streets, and most of them had a back-yard of sorts; they had little or no idea of a garden.

But a man went about implanting a spiritual idea of God, and the idols disappeared.

"Oh," said Shaw, "that's a grand idea!

exclaimed Eve, to whom the bare idea seemed as odd and unnatural, as that her own father should forget her mother, and take a second wife.

From these premises, it is evident that an universal remedy, or one that possesses healing powers for the cure of all diseases, is, in fact, a non-entity, a mere delusion, the existence of which is physically impossible, as the mere idea of such a thing involves a contradiction.

"The formation of new parties in the Chamber or in the country must be suppressed and the emergence of new 'liberal ideas' prevented.

PUNCHINELLO has hitherto refrained from criticising the periodicals of the day, from the mistaken idea that superlative excellence was not expected in every number of every daily or weekly journal in the land.

He is suspected of propagating revolutionary ideas among the peasantry.

He approaches it more than once, using the precise idea, and almost the language, too, of the Nebraska Act.

He had conceived the absurd idea of benefiting his fellow-beings, and of turning into that mistaken channel the surplus wealth that was his.