I believe his brother, when living, had formed precisely the same idea of him; and I apprehend the world will assent to both judgments.

For, these abstract ideas being the workmanship of the mind, and not referred to the real existence of things, there is no supposition of anything more signified by that name, but barely that complex idea the mind itself has formed; which is all it would have expressed by it; and is that on which all the properties of the species depend, and from which alone they all flow:

He gives us merely a vague idea of vast bulk.

In effect, the suggestion is that if we, like God, could contemplate the infinite Universe all at once, and have an adequate idea thereof, in other words if we could ascend to the self contemplation of the Eternal, we should have the bliss associated by long habit with the words of the Psalmist: "I shall be satisfied when I awake, with thy likeness."

Nay further, on looking through the list of all the associations it was easy to see how they are pervaded by purely English ideas, and especially such as are prevalent in that stratum of English society in which I was born and bred, and have subsequently lived.

His eye caught the heart that Francesca had drawnprobably not a good idea to leave it there.

I immediately acquainted Marble with my views of the matter, and he seized on the idea eagerly, as one probable and natural.

On the other hand if these Christian states themselves should succeed, as seemed likely, in destroying the Ottoman Empire in Europe, the Kingdom of Greece, if she now remained a passive spectator of their struggles, would find in the end that Macedonia had come into the possession of the victorious Slavs, and the Great Idea of the Greeksthe idea of expansion into Hellenic lands eastward toward Constantinopleexploded as an empty bubble.

The more Mr. Richard became acquainted with the family,that is, with the two persons of whom it consisted,the more favorably the idea of a permanent residence in the mansion-house seemed to impress him.

Similarly, if time is curved, the idea of the cyclic return of time naturally (though not inevitably) follows, and the division of the greater cycles into lesser loops; for it is easier to assign this elliptical movement to time than any other, by reason of the orbital movements of the planets and their satellites.

In time, therefore, that idea, also, was abandoned; and with it, regretfully, the idea of enlightening the world at all.

" Here, for once, we have the idea of self-sacrificeonly the idea, it is true, and not the act; but it indicates a very exceptional and exalted state for a Hindoo even to think of such a thing.

This species comes perhaps too near to some of the darker varieties of B. variabilis, of the true appearance of which scarcely any idea can be formed from the figures of Donovan.

Then, with seemingly another idea: "He's got an awful funny sign up over the counter.

" Into the minds of Dora and Miss Panney there came, simultaneously, this idea: that no matter how much or how often Miriam might wear that gown, she would not be the first one whom it had figuratively invested with the prerogatives of the mistress of Cobhurst.

Animated conversation amuses without seeming to teach, and transfers ideas so skilfully into the minds of others that they are ignorant of the debt, and mistake them for their own.

Columbus didn't know where his idea wasexactly.

Recent letters from America had caused deep melancholy; and the idea of singing, not con amore, but as a performer before an audience of entire strangers, filled her with dismay.

And, not to dwell longer upon this particular, so evident in itself; by the same way the mind proceeds to BODY, SUBSTANCE, and at last to BEING, THING, and such universal terms, which stand for any of our ideas whatsoever.

"And it was thus when Eustace spoke, Thus brightly his ideas glanc'd, Met mine, and smil'd as they advanc'd, For all his fervour I partook, Pour'd out my spirit in each theme, And follow'd every waking dream!

The word, and consequently the idea it represents, is polarized.

As a soldier at sea is never anything but an object of derision to sailors, correspondingly the mere idea of a sailor on horseback causes the utmost merriment among soldiers.

I should say decidedly no definite idea.