combinable

Updated: May 5, 2025

But I insist upon it that pleasures are very combinable with both business and studies, and have a much better relish from the mixture. The man who cannot join business and pleasure is either a formal coxcomb in the one, or a sensual beast in the other.

Earl of Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield - Complete Project Gutenberg Earl of Chesterfield Works

Still, even in this sphere, the tendency is in Humboldt's direction; the modern spirit tends more and more to establish a sense of native diversity between our European bent and the Semitic and to eliminate, even in our religion, certain elements as purely and excessively Semitic, and therefore, in right, not combinable with our European nature, not assimilable by it.

Matthew Arnold - Celtic Literature

But I insist upon it that pleasures are very combinable with both business and studies, and have a much better relish from the mixture. The man who cannot join business and pleasure is either a formal coxcomb in the one, or a sensual beast in the other.

Earl of Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield - Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1749

But the different nature of the material the fact that a character is not a presentation to sense, but a rationalistic synthesis of successive acts and feelings, not combinable into any image makes such a description much more unsatisfying in this case than in that of material forms.

George Santayana - The Sense of Beauty: Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory

The opinion that the panæther, as it is best called, is not atomic in its constitution, while all the combinable elements are so, is also gaining ground.

Henry Hartshorne - 1931: A Glance at the Twentieth Century