The central idea is an excellent, if not exactly novel, one; and a finer art, say that of NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, would have made a striking and satisfying story of it.

The idea may be a lofty professional ideal; it may be a desire to please one's family, a sense of duty, or a wish to excel.

Thou charming idea of a lover I once adored, thou wilt be no more my happiness!

But though the idea from which many novels start was perhaps the proper germ for one or more lyrics, it never attains in romance a pure and unincumbered development.

"Cutler's idea is money," she said; "but, believe me, he's wrong.

Naturally the idea that our stormy interview was to have a witness would have been the last thing to enter my mind; it never occurred to me to make sure no one was already in the room when we entered it.

The first idea for the poem was the line "For the Snark was a Boojum, you see," which came into his mind, apparently without any cause, while he was taking a country walk.

But the idea is a survival andand this is the important pointan admission of failure to understand where right lies: to "fight it out" is the remedy of the boy who for the life of him cannot see who is right and who is wrong.

The use, then, of words, is to be sensible marks of ideas; and the ideas they stand for are their proper and immediate signification.

Teddy had every disadvantage to contend against, and he had not journeyed a half-hour, when his idea of his own position was just the opposite of truth.

"The idea of God is a development from within, and a matter of faith, not an induction from without, and a matter of proof.

The fundamental idea in this is the enforcement of a common market price (plus freights) at any one time to all the customers of an enterprise.

[To remedy this inconvenience, language had yet a further improvement in the use of GENERAL TERMS, whereby one word was made to mark a multitude of particular existences: which advantageous use of sounds was obtained only by the difference of the ideas they were made signs of: those names becoming general, which are made to stand for GENERAL IDEAS, and those remaining particular, where the IDEAS they are used for are PARTICULAR.] 4.

And your Romish idea of man is a mistakeutterly wrong and absurd except in the one requirement of righteousness and godliness, which Protestants and heathen philosophers have required and do require just as much as you.

In my opinion the idea that interdining or intermarrying is necessary for national growth, is a superstition borrowed from the West.

He was full of "idees," and his fundamental idea was of course his belief in the equality and universal brotherhood of men.

The leading idea of her book on literature was the perfectibility of human nature,not new, since it had been affirmed by Ferguson in England, by Kant in Germany, and by Turgot in France, and even by Roger Bacon in the Middle Ages.

The Christian idea of a debt owed to God, which we can only repay by perfect loyalty and self-abnegation, becomes to George Eliot a debt owed to humanity, which we can only repay in the purest altruistic spirit.

The idea of God is an original endowment; it is as innate as the idea of myself.

"Your idea is madness, Carlos," he whispered.

Her idea was, "noblesse oblige," and that a great and ancient house should never stoop to such depths.

An idea once firm-rooted in his mind, was loathe to let itself be torn thence by mere words.

It is true that Washington had recommended the encouragement of domestic manufactures, the dependence of country on foreigners for nearly all supplies having been one of the chief difficulties of the war, but the great idea of "protection" had not become a mooted point in national legislation.

It is of comparatively little moment whether they fall like autumn leaves or perish in a storm,they are alike forgotten; but their ideas and virtues are imperishable, eternal lessons for successive generations.

The idea of elevating an abstraction into a great first cause was certainly a long stride in philosophic generalization to be taken at that age of the world, following as it did so immediately upon such partial and childish ideas as that any single one of the familiar "elements" could be the primal cause of all things.