Too often a false notion that usefulness and elegance are incompatible, that it is "unladylike" to be in their kitchens, or come in contact with the baker and butcher, makes them abrogate the highest honors of wifehood.
The crowd got the same notion at the same time, and it just melted.
In fifteen I was wedded solid to the notion that the bottom had dropped out of the chicken business.
We quit the notion of chickens for profit right then and there, but we couldn't quit the place.
I don't believe the least notion of our predicament had come to any of us.
The kettle of beans was there, but somehow we got the notion they might have been poisoned, so we left them.
I see at once their hosses was tired out, and they had a notion of camping at my water hole, not knowing nothing about the Ole Virginia mine.
But she knew so little of lords and baronets that she entertained no notion of their general mischievousness, and was wholly unsuspicious of danger to her daughter from their machinations.
I have erred against every commonplace notion of decorum.
She had no notion of drawing, not enough even to attempt a sketch of her lover's profile, that she might be detected in the design.
He had no notion of turning the pass by flank movements—of crowning the heights on each side—and accomplishing by skilful dispositions what could not be done by brute force without a dreadful sacrifice of life.
The fact is, the troops and followers are nearly in a state of mutiny for food, and the notion of waiting for such a person as Mehrab Khan, who has done his best to starve us, seems utterly preposterous.
Apart from the commercial bearings of the case, he had little more than a dim notion of obtaining a clearer insight into the politics of Central Asia.
But touching at Phaselis in the course of the voyage, Polyaratus, from some notion or another which he had conceived, took suppliant branches in his hand, and fled for safety to the city altar.
One therefore could hardly conceive a war more nearly answering to ournotion of a “fiery war” than this.
He did not ride in front of the army, as generals nowadays do, from the notion that this is the proper position for a commander.
I have nonotion of going anywhere with Professor Bumper.
Before Camp Venture was reached the sun was well above the horizon, and as they approached Tom gained some notion of what had happened there and of what the blaze of the night before had signified.
Never until our American Republic was established was that notion driven out of the minds of Kings, Princes and great ministers of state.
There resulted a general agreement that a man's legal character, so to speak, should be determined by his domicile, and this introduced a stricter notion of domicile, allowing each person to have but one.
In the case considered, this stimulus was the notion of the physical continuum, drawn from the rough data of the senses.
From this experimental ascertainment, set up as an assumption, it would be easy to derive the notion of parallel and Euclid's postulate itself.
To justify this definition it is proper to see whether it is in this way that geometers introduce the notion of three dimensions at the beginning of their works.
These are muscular sensations altogether different from the visual sensations which have given us the notion of the first two dimensions.
I know it will be said that if the muscular sensations contribute to form the notion of space, it is because we have the sense of the direction of each movement and that it makes an integrant part of the sensation.
How find a concise statement satisfying at once the uncompromising rules of logic, our desire to grasp the place of the new notion in the totality of the science, our need of thinking with images?
Thence the notion of the mathematical continuum of n dimensions has sprung quite naturally by a process very like that we discussed at the beginning of this chapter.
From this notion has arisen that of the mathematical continuum of several dimensions in the same way that the physical continuum of one dimension engendered the mathematical continuum of one dimension.
But visual space is only one part of space, and in even the notion of this space there is something artificial, as I have explained at the beginning.
Now this immediate notion of effort is of no use to us for measuring force; it is clear, for instance, that I should feel more fatigue in lifting a weight of fifty kilos than a man accustomed to carry burdens.
These are determinations we may make without having in advance any notion about form or about the metric properties of space.
In accordance with what has been said, it is necessary to understand by all the recurrent classes, all those in whose definition the notion of inductive number does not enter.
And his voice was so very tremulous and urgent that the hungry Doctor abandoned his notion of a Christmas cookie, and complied.
The notion of a vacuum, a space where there is nothing or void, was difficult for philosophers to accept.
His papers, alas, were afterwards sold with his books, so I have nonotion of what became of them or of their value.
He fell in love with some notion of so pickling hop-poles that they would last for ever.
For once in his life Percy had conceived a notionof which his aunt cordially approved--my Birthday Banquet.
Half-stifled, I leapt out of bed, and without the least notion of what I was doing, hastily dressed myself, and fled out into the night.
Not that I hold with thenotion that only the good so-called will be there.
Once, after contemplating this odd landscape for some little time, it occurred to me to speculate what the back view from the House of Life was like; but I failed to conceive the smallest notion of it.
I am aware that there is a very general notion abroad, that the injurious effects of cold water, in its application both internally and externally, are greatly diminished by the addition of a little spirit; but it is not so.
There is a strange notion abroad, that the smell of the earth is beneficial, especially to consumptive persons.
The common notion on this subject, if not ridiculous, is certainly strange.
They appear to have no farther notion of the digestive process than that it consists in reducing to a pulp the substances which are swallowed; and hence, whatever is reduced to a pulp, they regard as being digested.
The common notion that rice has a tendency to make people blind, is entirely unfounded.
This fact does not greatly redound to the acumen of the professor nor to the credit of his class-room methods, and what followed gives a curious notion of the easy-going system which then prevailed.
And the notion so tickled him, that he burst out laughing at intervals, as it recurred to him, all the rest of the day.
So that it may be doubted whether Miss Kilfinane received an accurate notion of the precise degree of poverty and obscurity in which the young man who was speaking to her had hitherto lived.
And if he included in the notion of being master in his own house the power of shutting out his fellow Methodists--preacher and all--from the knowledge of his most private family affairs, the conclusion was a pretty just one.
Algy had a shrewd notion that Mr. Diamond's appreciation of himself was likely to be a just one, and he was a little vexed and discomfited, that his tutor had given him no word of praise behind his back.
Then he got the notion that he would be a farmer in Canada, and went out with an axe to cut down the trees, and a plough to plough the ground afterwards, and he gave that up.
This same way of looking at the origin of the material world is illustrated in the Egyptian notion of a cosmic egg out of which issues the god (Phta) who creates the world.
It is probable that Leibnitz's notion of time and space, which approaches Kant's theory, led him to attach but little importance to the successive order of the world.
We see how different this metaphysical conception is from that scientific notion of cosmic evolution in which the lower stages are the antecedents and conditions of the higher.
Thus even his idea of the relation of the divine activity to the world shows a tendency to a pantheistic notion of a divine thought which gradually realizes itself in the process of becoming.
Schwally) even holds that this notion was originally expressed in the account of the creation of man in Gen.
An examination, by the aid of the marginal references in the Revised Version (Oxford and Cambridge edition, 1898), of the appropriations and reminiscences will give a profitable notion of this literary imitation of prophecy.
A notion had arisen what a comical country Scotland must have been with its Shorter Catechism, and its presbytery records, and its miserable food, and so on.
The question naturally arise whether this smaller salicylate content may not contribute to the notion that strontium salicylate is less likely to cause salicylism.
To worship the Devil is Witchcraft, and under that notion was our Lord urged unto sin.
I had a great notionof going to settle there when I was a young man.
He gives up the boyish notion of a sincerity among men like that of youth: he lives to seem.
Another notion that disturbs you very much, is your positive dislike of long sermons, and of such singing as they have when the organist is away.
One of those hums of admiration followed the suggestion, which one frequently hears in society, when nobody has the most distantnotion what he is expressing his approval of.
We rather incline to the opinion that we are the greatest man of the party, inasmuch as the notion of an exclusive and authentic report originated with us; this may be prejudice: it may arise from a prepossession on our part in our own favour.
We are quite persuaded the little old man has some notion of this kind, and that he considers their entry as a sort of negative impertinence.
Herein the notion of an epidemic constitution was set forth clearly, and conformably to the spirit of the age.
