"Ion" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... schal begyn{e} to worch in e lyft side of e boke or of e tabul, but yn what wyse {o}u schal wyrch in hym dicetur singillatim in seque{n}tib{us} capi{tulis} et de vtilitate cui{us}li{bet} art{is} & sic Completur [*leaf 140.] p{ro}hemi{um} & sequit{ur} tractat{us} & p{ri}mo de arte addic{ion}is que p{ri}ma ars est ...
— The Earliest Arithmetics in English • Anonymous
... Minister. Walter Sichel was at seventeen the cleverest school-boy whom I have ever known. Sir Henry McKinnon obtained his Commission in the Guards while he was still in the Fifth Form. Pakenham Beatty was the Swinburnian of the school, then, as now, a true Poet of Liberty. Ion Keith-Falconer, Orientalist and missionary, was a saint in boyhood as in manhood. Edward Eyre seemed foreordained to be what in London and in Northumberland he has been—the model Parish-Priest; ...
— Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography • George William Erskine Russell
... hear Neukomm's Oratorio of David. It is to music what Barry Cornwall's verses and Talfourd's Ion are to poetry. It is completely modern, and befits an age of consciousness. Nothing can be better arranged as a drama; the parts are in excellent gradation, the choruses are grand and effective, the composition, as a whole, ...
— Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Vol. I • Margaret Fuller Ossoli
... ION of Chios, poet, historian, and philosopher, highly distinguished among his contemporaries, and mentioned by Strabo among the celebrated men of the island. He won the tragic prize at Athens in 452 B.C., and Aristophanes (Peace, 421 B.C.) speaks of him as already ...
— On the Sublime • Longinus
... Larissa, Roma, Himera, Hemera, Nusa, Nyssa, Patara, Arena, [354]Cabasa, and the like. We may from hence prove, and from innumerable other instances, that among the people of the east, as well as among other nations, the word in regimine was often final. Thus the land of Ion was termed Ionia; that of Babylon, Babylonia; from Assur came Assyria; from Ind, India; from Lud, Ludia; in all which the region is specified by the termination. To say Lydia tellus, Assyria tellus, is in ...
— A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. • Jacob Bryant
... furst Diui[s]ion] 9.v our naturall and [birthe] syn 12 thincke hymself greatlye gyltie of ony notable [cryme] or fault 12 being corrupted he did [allow] [word fits visible text, but is spelled "allowe" elsewhere] ...
— A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful • Peter Martyr
... corpuscular and the atomic. A fourth affirms, with Haeckel, the condensation of precipitation of matter from ether—whose existence is proved by the condensation of precipitation. The present trend of scientific thought is toward the theory of ions. The ion differs from the molecule, the corpuscle and the atom in that it is an ion. A fifth theory is held by idiots, but it is doubtful if they know any more about the ...
— The Devil's Dictionary • Ambrose Bierce
... care, on the night of my arrival from the West Indies, you kindly said I might ask you for any little service which might be within your power. I shall be greatly obliged if you can obtain for me, and send to this place, a supply of artists' modeling wax—sufficient for the product ion ...
— I Say No • Wilkie Collins
... ought, for riding purposes, to be flat and not round. My experience of this kind of riding appears to have been borne out by another lady who tried it, for "Rapier," in the Sporting and Dramatic News, Nov. 26th, 1892, says: "A few weeks ago my correspondent 'Ion,' who is, I believe, an excellent horsewoman, told me how she made an essay at riding on a man's saddle, with the result that she had a very bad fall." I believe both of us would have done better if we had had no ...
— The Horsewoman - A Practical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding, 2nd. Ed. • Alice M. Hayes
... shlo-see'loy Open it | Malfermu gxin | mahl-fehr'moo jeen Unlock this box | Malfermu tiun cxi | mahl-fehr'moo tee'oo | skatolon | chee skahtoh'lohn Can I remove it? | Cxu mi povas nun | choo mee po'vahss noon | forporti gxin? | forport'ee jeen? Have you anything | Cxu vi havas ion | choo vee hah'vahss to declare? | deklarindan? | ee'ohn | | dehklarin'dahn? I have nothing | Mi havas nenion | mee hah'vahss liable to duty | deklarindan | nehnee'ohn | | dehklarin'dahn Have you ...
— Esperanto Self-Taught with Phonetic Pronunciation • William W. Mann
... flames flared again, playing over the bundles of luggage he had dropped. This time Brion was expecting it, pressed flat on the ground a short distance away. He was facing the darkness away from the sand car and saw the brief, blue glow of the ion-rifle discharge. His own gun was in his hand. When Ihjel had given him the missile weapon he had asked no questions, but had just strapped it on. There had been no thought that he would need it this quickly. Holding it firmly before him in both hands, he let his ...
— Planet of the Damned • Harry Harrison
... — N. resin, rosin; gum; lac, sealing wax; amber, ambergris; bitumen, pitch, tar; asphalt, asphaltum; camphor; varnish, copal^, mastic, magilp^, lacquer, japan. artificial resin, polymer; ion-exchange resin, cation-exchange resin, anion exchange resin, water softener, Amberlite^, Dowex [Chem], Diaion. V. varnish &c (overlay) 223. Adj. resiny^, resinous; bituminous, pitchy, tarry; ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... much care where it lifts or sets down, since its method of propulsion isn't trying to work against the fabric of space itself. For that reason, an interstellar vessel is normally built in space and stays there, using ion rockets for loading and unloading its ...
— Unwise Child • Gordon Randall Garrett |
