This idea is all very well for a child who can neither see nor compare things, who thinks everything is within his reach, and only bestows his confidence on those who know how to come down to his level.
This idea leads to a certain spiritual servility and inferiority.
The dominion of German thought can only be extended under the aegis of political power, and unless we act in conformity to this idea, we shall be untrue to our great duties towards the human race.
The artillery, therefore, must try more than ever to bring their tactical duties into the foreground and to make their special technical requirements subservient to this idea.
Haeckel also became an advocate of this idea, and presently there arose a so-called school of neo-Lamarckians, which developed particular strength and prominence in America under the leadership of Professors A.
Geoffroy's grasp of this idea of transmutation was by no means so complete as that of Lamarck, and he seems never to have fully determined in his own mind just what might be the limits of such development of species.
I was quite bewildered," he owned later on, "by this idea of leaving prison.
Musset, to improve on this idea, decides to write a novel from the episode which was still unfinished.
This idea of an Angiospermous invasion from some lost southern land has sometimes been revived since, but has not, so far as the writer is aware, been supported by evidence.
Indeed, this idea of unity in substance in nature seems to accord with some innate desire or intimate structure of the human mind.
This idea--the idea of the struggle for life--implied that nothing could persist, if it had no power to maintain itself under the given conditions.
This idea, perhaps, may have been borrowed from the power exercised by the crown over the laws of the Colonies.
But further, this idea, if well founded, would enable the States to defeat the whole constitutional provision by a general enactment.
There is, if I mistake not, Sir, as little compliment to State sovereignty in this idea, as there is of sound constitutional doctrine.
Further, this idea or knowledge of the mind does not follow from God, in so far as he is infinite, but in so far as he is affected by another idea of an individual thing (II.
Again, this idea of a triangle must involve this same affirmation, namely, that its three interior angles are equal to two right angles.
This idea of the mind is united to the mind in the same way as the mind is united to the body.
On this idea, so lightly formed, my departure was determined; and I, who saw a long journey to perform with Paris at the end of it, was enraptured with the project.
I believe fear was likewise mingled with this idea; I dreaded to hear ill of her.
But, although the limitation of the idea of humanity may be very manifold in the individual, the contents of this idea suffice to teach us that we can only depart from it by two opposite roads.
Striking, also, was the effect of this idea as rewrought by the early Ionian philosophers, to whom it was probably transmitted from the Chaldeans through the Phoenicians.
This idea, in various forms, became a powerful factor in nearly all the greater ancient theologies and philosophies.
This idea of an embassy to the King of the Mountains is about as unique an incident in the history of exploration as can be imagined.
During his journey down the Lachlan he returns to this idea again, and his remarks are decidedly inconsistent with his former statements.
This idea, at first suggested only for men, has, little by little, spread to women also.
Creeds, codes, Scriptures, and statutes are all based on this idea.
This idea satisfied me, and I dismissed my curiosity for the nonce.
For a long time he would eat nothing but thistles; but of this idea we soon cured him by insisting upon his eating nothing else.
The truth is, this idea of regulating life as a matter of business routine is more widespread than might be imagined; it is natural in its way, although we have just obtained it by an artificial process of reconstruction.
We appealed to this idea to give us light at the outset, when starting upon the analysis of the ludicrous.
This idea of a giant is a privileged recollection which has taken its abode in his mind and lies there in wait, motionless, watching for an opportunity to sally forth and become embodied in a thing.
This idea, that the primal and most sacred ordinance of God and nature was incompatible with the sanctity and purity acceptable to God, was the origin of the singular legends of the Marriage of the Virgin.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "this idea" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
