Treatises

Extreme sensibility often appears in treatises on madness as a state on its borderline that can easily slip into insanity. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In this sense, the inclusion of scientific ideas in treatises on practice reflects the spirit of public participation. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Footnotes, annotations and indexes in treatises and legal encyclopedias are easily tracked while a researcher reads print volumes, revealing research threads and nuances of law that may not be readily apparent at first glance. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The widths given in English treatises, and found perfectly practicable there, with proper drainage-tools, will seem to us exceedingly narrow. ❋ Henry Flagg French (N/A)

A great number of persons have commented on the 'Makâmat,' some in long and others in short treatises, and many consider it to be the most elegantly written, and the most amusing, work in the Arabic language. ❋ F. F. Arbuthnot (1867)

He wrote, in Latin, treatises on divinity and morals, and a History of Greater ❋ Unknown (1853)

(vegetative, external and internal senses, the motive faculties, practical and theoretical intellect) appears in Latin treatises by masters of arts and theologians. ❋ Hasse, Dag Nikolaus (2008)

But given his frequent moods swings, his tendency to project substance abuse problems onto others and his proclivity for writing 15,000 word treatises in defense of poor comprehension, there do seem to be a few excessive tendencies in evidence. ❋ Unknown (2006)

At first he was daunted, but remembering there yet remained six weeks of vacation, he addressed himself to the necessary labor — the severity of which is best evidenced by the fact that in the short time above mentioned he read Sallust, the odes of Horace, two books of Livy, three books of the Anabasis, two books of the Iliad, and certain English treatises. ❋ Various (N/A)

And here we may notice a peculiarity of Owen's treatises, which is at once an excellence and a main cause of their redundancies. ❋ Various (N/A)

Imitating the example of Leibniz other philosophers now called their treatises on the problem of evil "theodicies". ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Many books entitled treatises of Linguistic have a merely didactic purpose; they are simply scholastic manuals. ❋ Benedetto Croce (1909)

"The Idyls of the King" and "In Memoriam" might felicitously be called treatises on theology written in verse. ❋ Unknown (1892)

These might be called treatises, and are apart from the kind of poem of which I speak. ❋ Unknown (1874)

It was not perhaps till the 15th century, that any works bearing the character of what are now called treatises on ‘the evidences’ appeared; and these were probably elicited by the sceptical spirit which had already begun to show itself, arising out of the subtilties of the schoolmen. ❋ 1821-1902 (1860)

By hiring one of the growing number of companies that will supply anything from 1,000-word essays on the causes of the English Civil War to 10,000-word treatises on international marketing strategies. ❋ Christopher Middleton (2011)

Franklin acknowledged that he had not given much attention to the evidences of Christianity, and asked Priestley to recommend some 'treatises' on the subject 'but not of great length.' ❋ Leon H. Vincent (N/A)

The resulting text is breezy and informal; it is not just an autobiographical recounting of Crumb’s life; it also includes what could probably best be described as treatises about Crumb’s philosophy toward media, gender relations and whatever other insights toward life he felt like ranting about on that particular day. ❋ TEV (2005)

there is a new desire in the free public access to law movement to include not just primary materials of legislation and case law, but also secondary materials such as treatises and law journal articles or doctrine in the systems. ❋ Unknown (2007)