"Conjoin" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... 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
... house like this such loves as these hath united, Never did love conjoin by such-like covenant lovers, 335 As th'according tie Thetis deigned in concert wi' Peleus. Speed ye, the well-spun woof out-drawing, speed ...
— The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus • Caius Valerius Catullus
... shall wait on worthy Tamburlaine. Our army will be forty thousand strong, When Tamburlaine and brave Theridamas Have met us by the river Araris; And all conjoin'd to meet the witless king, That now is marching near to Parthia, And, with unwilling soldiers faintly arm'd, To seek revenge on me and Tamburlaine; To whom, sweet ...
— Tamburlaine the Great, Part I. • Christopher Marlowe
... maid, decked with a blush of honor, Whose feet do tread green paths of youth and love; The wonder of all eyes that look upon her, Sacred on earth, designed a Saint above. Chastity and Beauty, which were deadly foes, Live reconciled friends within her brow; And had she Pity to conjoin with those, Then who had heard the plaints I utter now? O had she not been fair, and thus unkind, My Muse had slept, and none had known ...
— The Home Book of Verse, Vol. 2 (of 4) • Various
... marks it flew; till fiercely flung From Polypoetes' arm the discus sung: Far as a swain his whirling sheephook throws, That distant falls among the grazing cows, So past them all the rapid circle flies: His friends, while loud applauses shake the skies, With force conjoin'd heave ...
— The Iliad of Homer • Homer
... story was, to conjoin two characters in that bustling and contentious age, who, thrown into situations which gave them different views on the subject of the Reformation, should, with the same sincerity and purity of intention, dedicate themselves, the one to the support ...
— The Monastery • Sir Walter Scott
... take, That wise and happy man will never fear The evil aspects of the year, Nor tremble, though two comets should appear. He does not look in almanacks to see, Whether he fortunate shall be; Let Mars and Saturn in the heavens conjoin, And what they please against the world design, ...
— Cowley's Essays • Abraham Cowley
... desire, Or ask from whence those cloudy thoughts proceed, Whose stony force, that smoky sighs forth send, Is lively witness how that careful dread And hot desire within her do contend: Yet she denies what she confess'd of yore, And then conjoin'd me to conceal the same; She loved once, she saith, but never more, Nor ever will her fancy thereto frame. Though daily I observed in my breast What sharp conflicts disquiet her so sore, That heavy sleep cannot procure her rest, But ...
— A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. VII (4th edition) • Various
... from that another sprang, Which added doubly to my former fear. For thus I reason'd: "These through us have been So foil'd, with loss and mock'ry so complete, As needs must sting them sore. If anger then Be to their evil will conjoin'd, more fell They shall pursue us, than the savage hound Snatches the leveret, panting 'twixt his jaws." Already I perceiv'd my hair stand all On end with terror, and look'd eager back. "Teacher," I thus began, "if speedily Thyself and me thou hide not, much I ...
— The Divine Comedy • Dante |
