Which preposition to use with thoughts
At this, I gave up all thoughts of those prodigious Shapes above meand could only stare, frightenedly, at the tremendous structure toward which I was being conveyed so remorselessly.
The most comforting thought in the world is that God knows all we do.
Awhile, I stood, trying to adjust my thoughts to this new problem.
Education has not really removed his common-sense, as some say, his power to connect passing events with their causes, and to act reasonably; but it has set his thought on some other thought for the time being, and the dinner-bell, we will say, does not detach him from his inquiry.
Education has not really removed his common-sense, as some say, his power to connect passing events with their causes, and to act reasonably; but it has set his thought on some other thought for the time being, and the dinner-bell, we will say, does not detach him from his inquiry.
Still, although this cruel tyrant, to whom in thy youthful simplicity being taken by surprise thou hast yielded thy freedom, appears to have deprived thee of understanding as well as of liberty, I will put thee in mind of many things, and entreat thee to fling off and banish wicked thoughts from thy chaste bosom, to quench that unholy fire, and not to make thyself the thrall of unworthy hopes.
We walked together during the day, and exchanged our thoughts about Jesus.
I abandoned the unpleasant train of thought with a snort of disgust, but it had led me to another.
As long as you continue to hug the delusion that you are "not to blame" for the unpleasant things in your conditions you might just as well profess the old thought as the new.
We can send a caravan across the desert, a ship across the sea, but we cannot send a Thought into a flaccid or a pompous brain.
Defiant still of Fortune's power, his thoughts at last found vent, For Fortune had been cruel, and in words of discontent, As if he blamed the serpent upon his shield displayed, The torrent of his heart broke forth and in wrath the warrior said: "O wasters of the brightest hope I knew in years long past!
Cursory Thoughts on some Natural Phenomena.
Most of them were engaged in executing drawings upon blocks of wood, although it is probable that some of them were smoking pipestobacco being vastly conducive to that concentration of thought by which alone great mental efforts can be followed by equivalent results.
* All the time at the back of my head were other thoughts than merchandise.
Oh, name him notLet me not in one Moment Descend from Heaven to Hell How came that wretched thing into thy Noddle? Nur. Faith, Mistress, I took pity of thee, I saw you so elevated with Thoughts of Mr. Bellmour, I found it necessary to take you down a degree lower.
Apart from this predominant type of character, Shelley describes his spirit as 'beautiful and swift'which surely it was: and he says that, having gazed upon Nature's naked loveliness, he had suffered the fate of a second Actseon, fleeing 'o'er the world's wilderness,' and pursued by his own thoughts like raging hounds.
"What can a soul do that is born there?" he cried; "for war is there and fighting, and perplexity and darkness; and no man knows if that which he does will be for good or evil, or can tell which is the best way, or know the end from the beginning; and those he loves the most are a mystery to him, and their thoughts beyond his reach.
Without a word, he placed the bag across his nag's back and then, mounting, rode away, all following him; but all the time there was a great turmoil of thoughts within his head, tumbling one over the other.
This naturally made the class from which officers were drawn think that no career was open to them under the Union Jack and turned their thoughts towards France, where their fellows were enjoying full pay without a break.
"But, Pan, how can any one think thoughts without something to think them with?
The Herbartian correlation was designed to further that well-connected circle of thought out of which would come the firm will, guided by right insight, inspired by true feeling, which is their aim in education.
Having been two years upon the throne, having made a plan, having stirred some thought through certain authorized journals, he inspired the nobility in three of the northwestern provinces to memorialize him in regard to emancipation.
She dictated Thoughts during Sickness in the intervals of sickness, when concentrated thought was possible.
No amount of book learning will make a man a scientific man; nothing but patient observation, and quiet and fair thought over what he has observed.
THOUGHTS IN A GRAVEL-PIT {262} Ladies and gentlemen, we may of course think of anything which we choose in a gravel-pit, as we may anywhere else.