As a conjunction it should not be used indiscriminately, as it often is used, for but or notwithstanding.
In construing this word, it must be recollected that it is not only a conjunction but also a pronoun, both demonstrative and relative.
When these words introduce a clause of comparison they should be followed by the conjunction than, instead of which the words but and except are often erroneously introduced.
But according to best usage the conjunction and is substituted for “with”; thus, “The captain and all his crew were drowned.
Than is indeed the conjunction of simple comparison, and should be used after adjectives in the comparative degree.
He speaks like a philosopher,” is correctly used, but the tendency to treat this word as a conjunction (which it is not) in substitution for as is altogether wrong.
The introduced conjunction has no grammatical place in the sentence, the meaning of which is clear without it.
It is only when the conjunction takes place at or very near the point where the two orbits cross one another, that is, near the node, that a transit can occur.
Every eight years, Venus forms herconjunction with the sun in the same part of the heavens.
One of these bodies may be much further from the ecliptic than the other; still, if the same secondary to the ecliptic passes through them both, they will be in conjunction or opposition.
Thus, when it is full moon to us, the earth, as seen from the moon, is then in conjunction with the sun, and of course presents her dark side to the moon.
But it must be recollected that bodies are in conjunction when they have the same longitude, in which case they are situated in the same great circle perpendicular to the ecliptic,--that is, in the same secondary to the ecliptic.
But, secondly, suppose she is on the north side of the ecliptic at the time of conjunction, and moving towards her descending node, and that the conjunction takes place as far from the node as an eclipse can happen.
Hence, in the conjunction and opposition, their gravity towards each other is diminished by the action of the sun, while in the quadratures it is increased.
The name of the person to whom it is addressed is undecipherable, but, taken in conjunction with two other letters previously addressed to Cromwell by the same correspondent, there can be little doubt as to its destination.
But the only idea we can form of causation is a constant conjunction of similar objects, and the consequent inference of one from the other: wherever this is the case necessity is clearly established.
But our idea of causation is alone derivable from the constant conjunction of objects and the consequent inference of one from the other; and, reasoning experimentally, we can only infer from effects causes exactly adequate to those effects.
The idea of necessity is obtained by our experience of the connection between objects, the uniformity of the operations of nature, the constant conjunction of similar events, and the consequent inference of one from the other.
The word liberty, as applied to mind, is analogous to the word chance as applied to matter: they spring from an ignorance of the certainty of the conjunction of antecedents and consequents.
The only idea which we can form of causation is derivable from the constant conjunction of objects, and the consequent inference of one from the other.
The actions of the will have a regular conjunction with circumstances and characters; motive is to voluntary action what cause is to effect.
They declared a more liberal policy than the government party, abolished the alcobola, reduced duties, and agitated a measure of forming Cinaloa as part of a Republic, in conjunction with the States of Jalisco and Sonora.
What proves the principal incentive to their valour is, that it is not at random nor by the fortuitous conflux of men that their troops and pointed battalions are formed, but by the conjunction of whole families, and tribes of relations.
The skilled in astrology declared, "that he had left Rome in such a conjunction of the planets, as for ever to exclude his return.
Medical authorities universally attach great importance to the mental condition at the moment of conjunction and conception.
There are certain signs of fruitful conjunction which are often recognized by women who are already mothers, but which may serve as no guide to a young wife who has never had any experience.
It is generally agreed by physicians and those who have devoted time to the study of this subject that the mind and temper of the parents at the moment of conjunction have a great influence upon the temper and disposition of the child.
In conjunction with Koechlin was a pioneer of French aviation.
The Athenian admiral Conon, in conjunction with the Persian satrap Pharnabazus, defeats the Lacedaemonian fleet off Cnidus, and restores the fortifications of Athens.
He gains several victories over the northern barbarians who had attacked Macedonia, and destroys Thebes, which, in conjunctionwith Athens, had taken up arms against the Macedonians.
The Duke replied--"If all is as General Ziethen supposes, I will concentrate on my left wing, and so be in readiness to fight in conjunction with the Prussian army.
So far as I am able to judge, it pays more respect to the Egyptian idiom, frequently omitting the conjunction and leaving the sentences disconnected.
Rufinus), in conjunction with whom, and with the help of two pupils named John and Joseph, he undertook a translation of the Bible.
If you can imagine when and where, in conjunction with despots or demagogues, I have set to my hand to deprive honest gentlefolk of their citizenship, pray speak.
In anticipation of the approaching Olympic year, (24) they began preparations to celebrate the Olympian games in conjunction with the men of Pisa, who claim to be the original presidents of the Temple.
The Laconian Pasippidas was charged with having brought the business about in conjunction with Tissaphernes, and was banished from Sparta in consequence.
The ephors and the members of assembly at Sparta (19) gave audience to these several parties, and sent out fifteen commissioners to Athens empowered, in conjunction with Pausanias, to discover the best settlement possible.
The hart in these legends appears to typify the dawn, and, in conjunction with some other elements of the myth, implies the daily sequence of light and darkness.
The government has updated its development program in conjunction with international agencies, yet even with the best of plans, the government faces formidable problems on all sides.
The rebound in the 1990s stems from the government program, in conjunction with the IMF, of privatization, deregulation, and fiscal stabilization.
The General Rubrics, Title XI, must be read now in conjunction with Titles IV.
Concurrence is the conjunction of two offices which succeed each other, so that the question arises to which of the two are the Vespers of the day to be assigned.
Occurrence is the conjunction of two or more offices, which fall on the same day.
In yet another way, too, ideal and real are so far {269} apart that their conjunction seems quite hopeless.
The characters given above taken in conjunction with the size of the animals will serve to distinguish the members of this genus.
That commonly these fasts have been appointed on account of wars, in which the nations were engaged, in conjunction with gross anti-christian idolaters, who have been most active in their endeavors to root out Protestantism.
But Bach's music is particularly qualified to develop the fingers in conjunction with musical expression and thematic characterization.
By all means the "international," because it will fit your piano to be used in conjunction with any other instrument, no matter whence it may come.
His heresy (like that of Arius) turned upon the nature of the conjunction of the Godhead with the Manhood.
Estius conjectures that "quod" is a conjunction in this place.
Certainly, they have not nearly the Textual significancy and importance of B in conjunction with A, or of A in conjunction with C.
The blunder is the more inexcusable, because the intrusion of such an irrelevant conjunction into places where it is without either use or meaning cannot have failed to attract the notice of every member of the Revising body.
This alone would not seriously affect the fertility of a soil did not other forces act in conjunction with it.
It must also be admitted that men possess no absolute certainty that though certain forces, brought into a certain conjunction a thousand times, have produced the same effect, they will continue to do so.
