"Thomson" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... in 1871; and of Mrs. Holman Hunt, who died in 1866. But the most famous grave is that of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, who lies beneath a massive tomb that bears only the initials E.B.B. and the date 1861. "Italy," wrote James Thomson, the poet of "The City of Dreadful Night," on ...
— A Wanderer in Florence • E. V. Lucas
... You, Miss Dashwood, would give a general commission for every new print of merit to be sent you—and as for Marianne, I know her greatness of soul, there would not be music enough in London to content her. And books!—Thomson, Cowper, Scott—she would buy them all over and over again: she would buy up every copy, I believe, to prevent their falling into unworthy hands; and she would have every book that tells her how to admire ...
— Persuasion • Jane Austen
... "No." When he begins to answer "Yes," there will be a difference of one grain between heap and no heap. One grain therefore does make a heap. The true sorites or chain inference is still treated in books on logic, cf. Thomson's Laws of Thought, pp 201—203, ed 8. Minutatim: cf. Heindorf's note on [Greek: kata smikron] in Sophistes 217 D. Interrogati: cf. 104. In 94 we have interroganti, which some edd. read here. Dives pauper, etc.: it will be easily seen that the process of questioning ...
— Academica • Marcus Tullius Cicero
... George Sheppard spoke at the convention of 1859 like a statesman; and he and Macdougall had higher qualities than mere facility with the pen. Gordon Brown gradually grew into the editorship. "He had" says Mr. E. W. Thomson, writing of a later period, "a singular power of utilizing suggestions, combining several that were evidently not associated, and indicating how they could be merged in a striking manner. He seems to me now to have been the greatest all-round editor I have yet had the ...
— George Brown • John Lewis
... millions of times larger than the electron. Yet science avers that the manifestations of energy which we call light, radiant heat, magnetism, and electricity, all come from the activities of the electrons. Sir J. J. Thomson conceives of a free electron as dashing about from one atom to another at a speed so great as to change its location forty million times a second. In the electron we have matter dematerialized; ...
— The Breath of Life • John Burroughs
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