The low price and extensive holdings, the want of combinable laborers, and the imperfect organisation of its social fabric, seemed to account for its disasters.
"The History of Tasmania, Volume I (of 2)"
John West
In its own nature it belongs to a private aspiration; and being conditional, like all religious acts not expressed in Scripture, and therefore not combinable with a perfect faith, it is something between prayer and wish,-an act of natural piety sublimed by Christian hope, that shares in the light, and meets the diverging rays, of faith, though it be not contained in the focus.
"Literary Remains, Vol. 2"
Coleridge
There are sixteen possible combinations of premisses, each of the four types of proposition being combinable with itself and with each of the others.
"Logic, Inductive and Deductive"
William Minto