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Example sentences for "disquisitions"

Lexicographically close words:
disquietness; disquiets; disquietude; disquietudes; disquisition; disrated; disregard; disregarded; disregardful; disregarding
  1. Anna with a smile that betrayed that she knew there was something charming in her disquisitions upon the machine that had been noticed by Sviazhsky.

  2. With such thoughts and disquisitions he had from his early years so exercised his mind, that on these occasions nothing could happen which he had not been already accustomed to consider.

  3. No doubt the Young Girl was capricious in setting the little engine at work, but she cut short a good many disquisitions that threatened to be tedious.

  4. He has condensed into those few pages the essence of a hundred diplomatic papers and historical disquisitions and Fourth of July orations.

  5. I may recall the disquisitions on the moral teaching of Liguori.

  6. But in the moral education of children, and also in the disquisitions of adults upon morality, mistakes are made.

  7. There are, at the same time, special disquisitions on matters of science or learning intended for peculiar and limited audiences, which find their way to publicity without the aid of the publisher.

  8. The discussion arose from the publication by Priestley of The Doctrine of Philosophical Necessity Illustrated, which itself is an appendage to Disquisitions Relating to Matter and Spirit.

  9. In answer to your suggestions of occupation for me, I must say that I do not think my capacity altogether suited for disquisitions of that kind.

  10. Human nature despises long arguments which come to nothing--heavy speeches which precede no motion--abstract disquisitions which leave visible things where they were.

  11. Many disquisitions upon Taste were written towards the close of the last century.

  12. As his disquisitions covered about half a page each morning in the Enterprise, it is easy to understand that he was an "influence.

  13. The quality with which Mark Twain invests his disquisitions upon morals, upon conscience, upon human foibles and failings, is the charm of the humorist always--never the grimness of the moralist or the coldness of the philosopher.

  14. In the sixth book we have disquisitions on matrimony and the rights incident to it, on paternal and on herile power.

  15. From these, after some intermediate disquisitions on moral duties, he comes to the more extensive province of casuistry, the obligation of promises.

  16. The long disquisitions on the Mosaic law, the discussions on the privileges of the Hebrew race and the rights of other races were necessary.

  17. I have amused myself lately with an essay or dissertation on the populousness of antiquity, which led me into many disquisitions concerning both the public and domestic life of the ancients.

  18. On the subject of Syntax his disquisitions are deficient in fulness, and there is a want of grammatical exercises throughout.

  19. The learned disquisitions of the play 'Sapientia' are presented in a form still less attractive[509].

  20. There is the heroic, the romantic, the comic and the unrelieved tragic element, and the two plays that stand last contain long disquisitions on scholastic learning.

  21. The last two plays of Hrotsvith are chiefly of historical interest for the learned disquisitions they contain; their dramatic value is comparatively small, and many of the scenes are in a way repetitions of scenes in other plays.

  22. If Jesus Christ was a great man only, why "has He done more to regenerate mankind than all the disquisitions of philosophers, and all the exhortations of moralists"?

  23. There is no science in which the most active disquisitions concerning ideas did not come after, not before, the first discovery of laws of phenomena.

  24. And in Plato, the metaphysical part of the disquisitions concerning knowledge in general, though independent in its principles, always seems to be subordinate in its purpose to the questions concerning the knowledge of our duty.

  25. Without intruding upon the reader disquisitions which would be out of place, no opportunity has been omitted, from the consideration of their names, to throw around the sites of their former or present residence, this species of interest.

  26. From the disquisitions of Clement of Alexandria we see how vigorous the old conception of the Church, as the heavenly communion of the elect and believing, still continued to be about the year 200.

  27. Footnote 475: Tertullian seems even to have had no great appreciation for the degree of systematic exactness displayed in the disquisitions of Irenæus.

  28. In working out this thought Irenæus verges here and there on soteriological naturalism (see especially the disquisitions regarding the salvation of Adam, opposed to Tatian's views, in III.

  29. Here also we plainly perceive that the several disquisitions in Irenæus were by no means part of a complete system.

  30. For the rest, the disquisitions of Irenæus, Tertullian, and Hippolytus were to such an extent borrowed from their opponents that there is scarcely a problem that they propounded and discussed as the result of their own thirst for knowledge.

  31. The insufficient Christological and especially the eschatological disquisitions spoiled the enjoyment of the work in later times (on the Latin Irenæus cf.

  32. The disquisitions of Renan in the last volumes of his great historical work are excellent, though not seldom exaggerated in particular points.

  33. He confesses that he here simply keeps to the rule of faith and the Holy Scriptures, and declines speculative disquisitions on principle.

  34. Footnote 653: Owing to the importance of the matter we shall give several Christological and trinitarian disquisitions from the work "de trinitate".

  35. Footnote 284: The disquisitions of Clement of Alexandria in Pædag.


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