"Conjoin" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... from the treasure of his wisdom. In the causes, nature, and affections, of the eclipses of the sun and moon, there is most excellent speculation; but, to profound further, and to contemplate a reason why his providence hath so disposed and ordered their motions in that vast circle, as to conjoin and obscure each other, is a sweeter piece of reason, and a diviner point of philosophy. Therefore, sometimes, and in some things, there appears to me as much divinity in Galen his books, De Usu Partium, as in Suarez's Meta- physicks. Had Aristotle been as curious in the enquiry of this ...
— Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend • Sir Thomas Browne
... But to multiply these upon a war scale was not only beyond the resources of any individual—hardly a nation on the globe in the period of its greatest prosperity could have undertaken such a work. All the nations, then, must now conjoin. They must unite their resources, and if necessary, exhaust all their hoards, in order to raise the ...
— Edison's Conquest of Mars • Garrett Putnam Serviss
... packed within itself, would be too delicious a simplification. But the purely verbal character of the operation is undisguised. Because the names of finite things and their relations are disjoined, it doesn't follow that the realities named need a deus ex machina from on high to conjoin them. The same things disjoined in one respect appear as conjoined in another. Naming the disjunction doesn't debar us from also naming the conjunction in a later modifying statement, for the two are absolutely co-ordinate elements in the finite tissue ...
— A Pluralistic Universe - Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the - Present Situation in Philosophy • William James
... Jupiter concludes, To lay the stroke of your unceasing strife. As heretofore betwixt these lovers twain Ye have express'd your powers upon their life, So now he wills you to withhold your hands. Enough sufficeth to confirm your might; And to conjoin ye both in friendly bands Of faithful love, wherein the gods delight, His pleasure is that, Lady Venus, you Shall be content never to hinder them, To whom Dame Fortune shall her[126] friendship show, Of wretched to procure them happy men. Ne shall you, Fortune, once presume ...
— A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. VI • Robert Dodsley
... the discontented in the same esteem as the contented, because of submission to the Divine decrees. As for the king of the second order, he upholds the things of the Faith and of the world and compels the folk to follow the Law of God and to observe the precepts of humanity; and it behoves him to conjoin the sword and the pen; for whoso goeth astray from what the pen hath written, his feet slip, and the king shall rectify his error with the edge of the sword and pour forth his justice upon all men. As for the third kind of king, he hath no religion but the following his own ...
— The Book Of The Thousand Nights And One Night, Volume II • Anonymous
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