To let the mere notions of a boy determine the edition of a book to be bought and to estimate the merits of different editions by these same notions is foolish.
It should carry no weight with the teacher who would give the boy artistic notions of beauty, love, and mystery.
These notionsare always safer than those of cold realism worked out in artificial conduct.
Does any schoolboy from a home other than one in which Puritan notions yet prevail read "Pilgrim's Progress"?
You have all sorts of exalted notions about things--about sentiments and duties, and so forth.
But I hope she won't give her queer notions up, teacher, because I like them.
Mrs. Lynde says she thoroughly approves of the match and thinks its likely Miss Lavendar will give up her queer notions and be like other people, now that she's going to be married.
That was how I was brought up, and I don't know but what it was just as good a way as all these new-fangled notions for training children.
Nor must we entertain such notions with regard to our servants and friends.
And Aristotle, writing to Antipater about Alexander, said, "that he ought not to think highly of himself because he had many subjects, for anyone who had right notions about the gods was entitled to think quite as highly of himself.
New dresses might have--puttin' foolish notions in her head.
There's no accountin' fornotions hereabouts, ma'am.
It is safe to say that those who entertain such notions have never read Mr. Parkman.
As contrasted with Independency, Quakerism was a notable advance in the direction of Individualism; it had outgrown the set of notions according to which a civic community ought to consist of a united body of believers.
Nevertheless, it illustrates as well as the Wolfian theory the way in which such notions grow.
No doubt this is because so many people mix up Darwinism with the doctrine of evolution, and have but the vaguest and haziest notions as to what it is all about.
The play which usually opens the series, The Maid's Tragedy, is perhaps the finest of all on the purely tragic side, though its plot is a little improbable, and to modern notions not very agreeable.
His religious notions and morals do him great credit, but his metaphysics are so obscure as not to be intelligible which, however, may partly be owing to the nature of the language.
Other parts of the doctrine of Confucius were well calculated to keep alive the superstitious notions that still prevail among the multitude.
Mistaken Notions entertained with regard to the British Embassy--corrected by the Reception and Treatment of the subsequent Dutch Embassy.
The frequency of such robberies and the alarm they occasion to the inhabitants are neither favourable to the high notions that have been entertained of the Chinese government, nor of the morals of the people.
Happiness) men seem to form their notions from the different modes of life, as we might naturally expect: the many and most low conceive it to be pleasure, and hence they are content with the life of sensual enjoyment.
Marjory was in bed with a sore throat, and whatever their notions as to my undesirability, neither Mr. nor Mrs. Wheeler were inclined to attend evening service.
Their twentieth-century notions will avail us pitifully little against the advance of the Kaiser's legions.
In the Middle Ages men relapsed to the primitive notions of a barbarous age.
Had I always had such notionsas these, I had instructed you better.
Many of their notions about him were crude and unworthy, even late in their history.
For them with their false notions it could mean only one thing: their God, Jehovah, was too weak to protect his people against the greater gods of Nineveh.
Their notions of a future state coincide generally with the other stocks.
He has very imperfect notions on many of those branches of knowledge in what we suppose him best informed.
They came with high and severe notions of civil and religious liberty.
Their notions of the boundary between life and death, which is also symbolically the limit of the material verge between this and a future state, are revealed in connection with the exhibition of flames of fire.
But, surely, it should not, whenever its own notions of right or interest collide with the notions of others, fall into hysterics and act as if it really feared for its own security and its very independence.
This is not a theory, but it is a fact which has been demonstrated in its every detail beyond dispute, and we are now happily in a condition to reject our venerable notions concerning bad air, miasma, etc.
A delay in the War Office had caused the death of this promising young man Bonaparte was much affected at the circumstance, and he said to me, "These Poles have such refined notions of honour.
But, shrinking from the fierce light of Truth, these fanciful notions left us long ago.
Most of these troops were deplorably ignorant of all notions of drill, and were little more than an armed mob.
Sir Gardner went right through their country to the Turkish border, and tarried amongst them long enough to form pretty accurate notions of their state.
This is in accordance with the law of our nature; but these recollections, and the lessons which they teach, are not, if rightly laid hold of, such as to induce a mere blind attachment to the skeletons of dead notions and practices.
And the same notions mounted still higher in the ascendant, when the senate of the University of Cambridge apparently evinced a desire to examine the requirements of that body by the same standard.
Their present notions of fraternity and equality they get from hunger and from rags.
Well, I wish, among your notions of things in general, you could find one that will lead us to the ship," said master Porphyry.
They pretend to notionsof honesty, too, that's the joke.
But how in the present state of society can you get such notions adopted?
When I hear a fellow mighty fine in his notions of universal liberty, I always feel pretty certain that he only wants the power to trample on the independence of all who might stand in the way of his particular enjoyments.
My intimacy with the smugglers had taught me many things which I managed to turn to advantage on several occasions--particularly notions affecting the rights of property, and the legality of resisting the law.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "notions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
