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Example sentences for "disquisition"

Lexicographically close words:
disquieting; disquietness; disquiets; disquietude; disquietudes; disquisitions; disrated; disregard; disregarded; disregardful
  1. In the third volume of his edition of Ames, page 1411, there is a fac-simile of the frontispiece to the Cambridge book; and in the Preliminary Disquisition on Early Engraving and Ornamental Printing, prefixed to Dr.

  2. Dibdin, in his Preliminary Disquisition on Early Engraving and Ornamental Printing, in his edition of Ames and Herbert's Typographical Antiquities, has given several curious specimens of large ornamented capitals.

  3. Choose neither magistrates, civil or ecclesiastical, by favour or price; but with long disquisition and report of their worth by all suffrages.

  4. Wits made out their several expeditions then for the discovery of truth, to find out great and profitable knowledges; had their several instruments for the disquisition of arts.

  5. George Eliot did not receive this adventitious aid from romance, and her work was, perhaps, unduly burdened by ethical diatribe, scientific disquisition and moral and philosophical asides.

  6. In pursuance of this undertaking he communicated a disquisition on the "Prometheus" of Æschylus.

  7. The perpetual subject of political disquisition is not absolute, but comparative good.

  8. Doubts will produce disputes and disquisition; disquisition requires delay, and delay causes inconvenience.

  9. In this tract nothing deserves notice, more than that Browne considers the oracles as evidently and indubitably supernatural, and founds all his disquisition upon that postulate.

  10. Perhaps he may burn a heretic in the afternoon by way of fireworks, and end by writing a disquisition for the bishops upon the royal supremacy.

  11. I talked of the difference of genius, to try if I could engage Gerard in a disquisition with Dr Johnson; but I did not succeed.

  12. How far this key may be the right one or the wrong, or how far it may be permitted to use it, are, once more, subjects for disquisition into which it is not for us to enter.

  13. A second will I hope follow at an early date, containing a disquisition on the Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text; and, I am glad to say, will consist almost exclusively of Dean Burgon's own compositions.

  14. The master hand which drew the economic disquisition in his message of 1836 pointed to these sales as the effects of the extension of bank credit and of the over-issue of bank paper.

  15. His discourse was very remote from metaphysical disquisition or religious controversy.

  16. His disquisition on the doctrine of daemons, 323.

  17. Daemons, Apuleius' disquisition on the doctrine of, i.

  18. Without entering into a disquisition which here would be misplaced, I will refer to a few known facts, in support of what I advance.

  19. An able disquisition will be found in MAX MÜLLER's History of Sanskrit Literature, pp.

  20. See the infuriating disquisition on "Mrs. Grundy" in "Tono-Bungay.

  21. See the very learned, ingenious, and satisfactory disquisition in The Revision Revised, pp.

  22. The office of philosophical disquisition consists in just distinction; while it is the privilege of the philosopher to preserve himself constantly aware, that distinction is not division.

  23. Mr. Wordsworth in his recent collection has, I find, degraded this prefatory disquisition to the end of his second volume, to be read or not at the reader's choice.

  24. He is also intimate with the question of apples, and he treats of it in a succulent disquisition which imparts to the somewhat trivial theme a kind of lyrical dignity.

  25. The style of this work is lively and interesting: its pictures of manners and scenery good; and it contains a learned disquisition on the origin of printing.

  26. Robertson, in his Disquisition on India, and Harris, or perhaps, more properly speaking, Dr.


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