And even should any fail to see, as now I see, the shadowed picture and conception of that to which one may well give the accepted titles of Heaven and Hell; yet can I promise certain thrills, merely taking the story as a story.

There being, (I believe) in general as many different ideas and conceptions in the mind of mankind, as there are variety of complexions and countenances.

These are the voices which struck the key-note of my conceptions as to what the sounds we are to hear in heaven will be, if we shall enter through one of the twelve gates of pearl.

The fact that with such a suggestive precedent before their eyes the Greeks never once hit upon the device of representation, even in their attempts at framing federal unions, shows how thoroughly their whole political training had operated to exclude such a conception from their minds.

This calendar places the feast of our Lady's Conception on the 2nd May.

That He intended to convey what it might come to mean in other conditions and ages seems very doubtful; and so if the word "person" has acquired a fuller and different meaning in modern philosophy, we are not at once justified in applying this fuller conception to the Divine persons, unless we can show that it is a legitimate development of the older sense.

The answer is that though they have realized the general principle they have not yet divested themselves of certain conceptions by which they limit it, and consequently by the law of subjective mind they carry those limitations into the working of the Resurrection principle itself.

Surely, the far larger part of these assumed difficulties rests on a misapplication either of the senses to the sense, or of the sense to the understanding, or of the understanding to the reason;in short, on an asking for images where only theorems can be, or requiring theorems for thoughts, that is, conceptions or notions, or lastly, conceptions for ideas.

Philolaus, therefore, the Pythagorean, has left for us in writing admirable conceptions about these principles, celebrating their common progression into beings, and their separate fabrication.

But the chief benefit which I derived at this time from the trains of thought suggested by the St. Simonians and by Comte, was, that I obtained a clearer conception than ever before of the peculiarities of an era of transition in opinion, and ceased to mistake the moral and intellectual characteristics of such an era, for the normal attributes of humanity.

Of course the idealist explains this organic conception with a respect for personality which is absent from socialistic and evolutionary doctrines of society.

Rhetorical Elements in Italian Renaissance Conceptions of the Purpose of Poetry 1.

It is a question whether any great thinker will be anything but obscure at times; simply because he is possessed by conceptions beyond his powers of expression.

Of course in putting these conceptions into language he was creating figures of speech, some of them startlingly apt, some of them merely far-fetched.

They have not one conception like those in villages and in the country.

It shows us how men have gone steadily forward, under the leadership of the divine Spirit, leaving old conceptions behind them, and rising to larger and larger understanding of divine things.

This pompous abstraction presents us with a conception at once ambitious and sterile.

In this condition it remains for many a year, until at length, toward the end of some auspicious cluster of seasons, the glacier recedes beyond the upper margin of the basin, leaving it open from shore to shore for the first time, thousands of years after its conception beneath the glacier that excavated its basin.

When the same order of genius sought to express its conception through the language of the Gothic style, the result was invariably defective.

Their chances of marriage were not diminished, but rather augmented, by the fact that they had been great favorites, provided they had avoided conception during their years of general pleasure.

"There is a conception among old nations which is awful, and may almost seem terrible.

There is, to my mind, a unity of conception between the history depicted on the vault, the prophets and forecomers on the pendentives, the types selected for the spandrels, and the final spectacle of the day of doom.

NOMINALISM, the name given to the theory of those among the Scholastics who maintained that general notions, which we denote by general terms, are only names, empty conceptions without reality, that there was no such thing as pure thought, only conception and sensuous perception, whereas realists, after Plato, held by the objective reality of universals.

The Creation of the EarthThe Miraculous Birth of IoskehaHe Overcomes his Brother TawiscaraCreates and Teaches MankindVisits his PeopleHis Grandmother AtaensicIoskeha as Father of his MotherSimilar Conceptions in Egyptian MythsDerivation of Ioskeha and AtaensicIoskeha as Tharonhiawakon, the Sky SupporterHis Brother Tawiscara or Tehotennhiaron IdentifiedSimilarity to Algonkin Myths.

The correctness of this supposition seems to be shown by a prevailing superstition among the Aztecs about twins, and which strikingly illustrates the uniformity of mythological conceptions throughout the world.