He would indeed create faith in the world, not by the dissertations of Paul, but by the agonies of the dying Christ.

She formerly kept a boarding-house in the city, where, at table regularly after soup, she would regale those present with long dissertations on the shocking immorality of the present day, varying the monotony, perhaps, by allusions to the boarders who had just left.

The ancient and perpetually changing distribution of nations in Scythia or Tartary, in its most extended sense, almost elude research, and would require lengthened dissertations instead of illustrative notes.

* DISSERTATIONS ON THE EUMENIDES OF AESCHYLUS, with the Greek Text, and Critical Remarks.

So of Bible societies; he was opposed to these as furnishing a class of subjects for discussion which brought up to his mind the old dissertations on "the rights of man."

More recent histories are dissertations in disguise, on disputed points.

" Upton remarks in a note on iii., 23 (p. 184, Trans.), that "there are many passages in these dissertations which are ambiguous or rather confused on account of the small questions, and because the matter is not expanded by oratorical copiousness, not to mention other causes.

To show her that he was worthy of her consideration, he deemed it incumbent upon him to read her long dissertations on scientific subjects, and bored her incessantly with a translation of the orations of Demosthenes, which he intended dedicating to her in an elaborate preface.

This cursed system of writing dissertations will be the death of us, and if I were to edit another number, I should make a great alteration in that particular.

For young people especially, it is sufficient to understand the tone of human feeling expressed by legends, rather than to enter into any critical dissertations on their historic truth.

Seventeen years later appeared his "Carmen, the Power of Love," of which Taine, in his celebrated essay on the work, says, "Many dissertations on our primitive savage methods, many knowing treatises like Schopenhauer's on the metaphysics of love and death, cannot compare to the hundred pages of 'Carmen.'

Independently therefore of their value as poems, these compositions are a real service rendered to historical literature; and the author has made this service greater by his prefaces, which will do more than the work of a hundred dissertations in rendering that true conception of early Roman history, the irrefragable establishment of which has made Niebuhr illustrious, familiar to the minds of general readers.

How far, or whether at all, your answers have run, beyond the facts inquired for, into theories, arguments, and dissertations, as erroneous as mischievous, is not a matter of present consideration.

TURABIAN, KATE L. A manual for writers of dissertations.

(e) J.S. Mill, Inaugural Address at St. Andrew's, in "Dissertations," Vol.

(b) J.S. Mill, Civilization, in "Dissertations and Discussions," Vol.

One would think by some Passages in it, that it was composed by Lucian, or at least by some Author who has endeavourd to imitate his Way of Writing; but as Dissertations of this Nature are more curious than useful, I shall give my Reader the Fable, without any further Enquiries after the Author.

To himto this compound of somnolence, shrewdness, and good natureto this creature with no more tincture of romantic idealism than a wine-skin, the knight addresses, without misgiving, his lofty dissertations on the glories and the duties of chivalrythe squire responding after his fashion.

How many evenings they spent together in dissertations which often ended in nothingand how often the dawn surprised them before they were weary!

In the dissertations upon religious subjects incessantly renewed about Delsarte, it was sometimes declared that "great sinners were surer of salvation than the most perfect unbelievers in the world.

Availing himself of a pause in the dissertations on national politics, Maltboy pulled out his watch and consulted it.

It is this alone that injures "Counterparts" for many;not that they would not gladly accept the clippings in a little supplementary pamphlet, but dissertations, they say, delay the action.

NEWTON, THOMAS, English divine; edited Milton's "Paradise Lost" and "Paradise Regained," and notes, and wrote "Dissertations on the Prophecies" (1704-1782).

Cotton Mather wrote many- dissertations.

His poems are ingenious dissertations upon love and we catch little trace of real feeling in them.