arate, independent thoughts requiring for their expression two
sentences. The following sentences illustrate the common relations
that may exist between the clauses of a compound sentence.

_Repetition._ "Nothing has a drift or relation; nothing has a
promise or history."

"But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is
a refinement on the principle of resistance; it is the
dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the
Protestant religion."

_Contrast._ "If the people approve the way in which these
authorities are interpreting and using the Constitution,
they go on; if the people disapprove, they pause, or at
least slacken their pace."

"Every court is equally bound to pronounce, and competent to
pronounce, on such questions, a State court no less than a
Federal court; but as all the more important questions are
carried by appeal to the supreme Federal court, it is
practically that court whose opinion determines them."

_Consequence._ "The British and American line had run near it
during the war; it had, _therefore,_ been the scene of
marauding, and infested with refugees, cow-boys, and all
kinds of border chivalry."

_Example._ "He found favor in the eyes of the mothers by petting
the children, particularly the youngest; and like the lion
bold, which whilom so magnanimously the lamb did hold, he
would sit with a child on one knee, and rock a cradle with
his foot for whole hours together."

There is another condition which masses many details into one compound
sentence. If in narration a writer wishes to give the impression that
many things are done in a moment of time, and together form one
incident, he may group many circumstances, nearly independent except
for the matter of time, into one compound sentence. In description he
may present groups of details hastily in one sentence, and so give the
impression of unity. The same thing may be done in exposition. Many
independent ideas may bear a common relation to another idea, either
expressed or understood; and in order to get them before the reader as
one whole, the author may group them in a single sentence. The
examples below illustrate this method of sentence development.

_Narration._ "For a moment the terror of Hans Van Ripper's wrath
passed across his mind, for it was his Sunday saddle; but
this was no time for petty fears; th