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You must own up I have put one good notion into your head?" "I have said nothing against any of them. Come, you ought to go at once." "Can't I smoke my pipe first please?" "You'll find it quieter in the parlor." "But it's pleasanter here where I can watch you." "Do you think I need watching?" "Yes, a little, since you don't look after your own interests very sharply."
"And I have a notion that even you, Captain Barnaby, will never dispute that fact." He threw back his head suddenly for all the world like the dancing faun and laughed silently at the stars. My tongue was dry in my mouth as I tried to make some rejoinder.
She had the grit to pray for Judus if she took the notion there warn't no back-down to her, I judge. You may say what you want to, but in my opinion she had more sand in her than any girl I ever see; in my opinion she was just full of sand. It sounds like flattery, but it ain't no flattery. And when it comes to beauty and goodness, too she lays over them all.
Beethoven, and Bach and Mozart, and Rubinstein are to be superseded by the wonderful Wagner who hasn't a notion of music in his head! and Serov, the imitator; and now Gregoriev, infant prodigy, picked out of the gutter by me, from whom he now proceeds to steal the only ideas he has about composing!
When me grandfather tould me he was goin' to put your father and mother out on the road I begged and prayed an' done everythin' I could to persuade him to give up the notion, an' at last says I, 'Well, grandfather, says I, 'I'll promise never to speak to Mike agin, says I, nor so much as look at him, says I, 'if ye'll only let them stop in it. Sure, whoever it was went carryin' stories to ye must have been hard set to find somethin' to say if they brought up that, an' you had no call to be listenin' to them.
The Indians of the West, have names for their particular gods, though they have no name for God: as if the heathens should have had the names Jupiter, Apollo, Mars, etc., but not the word Deus; which shows that even those barbarous people have the notion, though they have not the latitude and extent of it. So that against atheists, the very savages take part, with the very subtlest philosophers.
He has not made the poetry, but he flatters himself he has done something towards making the poets. His notion of the poetic function is ambitious, and coincides roughly with what Schopenhauer has laid down as the province of the metaphysician. The poet is to gather together for men, and set in order, the materials of their existence.
"I had a notion," he said, in his quiet, unhurried tones, "that my wife would have considered it rather hard lines to be dragged away while there was a single man left to dance with." The bride snatched her hand from his knee with a swiftness of action that could hardly be mistaken. He might have been speaking in fun, but, even so, it was an ugly jest.
The dear abstract notion of the East India Company, as long as she is unseen, is pretty, rather poetical; but as she makes herself manifest by the persons of such beasts, I loathe and detest her as the scarlet what-do-you-call-her of Babylon.
All these, except the Parliament, were ineffective and as it were accidental in their action; all they did was to preserve in a manner the notion of liberty. The circumstances of England were exceptional. The Parliament did not govern; but it became a mode of government adopted in principle, and often indispensable in practice. Nothing, however, could arrest the march of centralisation.
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