Sentence examples for the connexion of from inspiring English sources

Having just finished Mary Somerville's On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences, the novelist Maria Edgworth reported feeling like a boa constrictor "after a full meal".

In Book IV of the Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Locke defines knowledge as "the perception of the connexion of and agreement, or disagreement and repugnancy of any of our ideas".

(This issue of the connexion of body and mind is discussed at length in Lecture V of The Principle of Individuality and Value).

Similarly, a practiced musician plays the harpsichord from "the connexion of the several complex parts of the decomplex motions" (OM 1, prop. 21).

Aristotle lists the four questions thusly: "(1) whether the connexion of an attribute with a thing is a fact, (2) what is the reason of the connexion, (3) whether a thing exists, (4) what is the nature of the thing".

Sometimes too it happens as with diagrams; for there we can sometimes analyse the figure, but not construct it again: so too in refutations, though we know on what the connexion of the argument depends, we still are at a loss to split the argument apart.

Rudolf Simek says that "this connexion of the god with the yew-tree, of whose wood bows were made (cf. ON ýbogi 'yew bow'), has led to Ullr being seen as a bow-god".

The limbs divided into great branches, and these into lesser and lesser branches, were themselves once, when the tree was small, budding twigs; and this connexion of the former and present buds by ramifying branches may well represent the classification of all extinct and living species in groups subordinate to groups.

The limbs divided into great branches, and these into lesser and lesser branches, were themselves once, when the tree was small, budding twigs; and this connexion of the former and present buds by ramifying branches may well represent the classification of all extinct and living species in groups subordinate to groups (1859: 120) [ 2].

For him, "The Tempest is a specimen of the purely romantic drama, in which the interest is not historical, or dependent upon fidelity of portraiture, or the natural connexion of events – but is a birth of the imagination, and rests only on the coaptation and union of the elements granted to, or assumed by, the poet".

The Bakerian Lecture: On the Absorption and Radiation of Heat by Gases and Vapours, and on the Physical Connexion of Radiation, Absorption, and Conduction, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 151 1-36.