The advocates of the Ideal in Art cannot fail to be pleased with a charger which embodies, as it were, merely the abstract notion or quality, Horse, and the attention of the spectator will not be distracted from the principal figure.

It is indeed a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in so many shapes, so many postures, so many garbs, so variously apprehended by several eyes and judgments, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air.

He has become so habituated to it, that he attaches no meaning or notion whatsoever to his own oaths.

Yet we find precisely the same notions current in each race about its Bible that we have cherished concerning our own Bible.

Turning to Eveena, who still remained beside me, I said "Get your veil, and come out with me; I have not yet an idea where we are, and scarcely a notion what the grounds are like.