Voorbeelden van disquisition

• 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. 

• It is a lengthened disquisition, in seven thousand four hundred lines, upon the great phenomena of the outward world. 

• The national historian of Rome has left us an episode of his great work, a disquisition on the probable effects that would have followed if Alexander the Great had invaded Italy. 

• We have been led to this disquisition into the fundamental nature of this private record by the question put to us, whether it is a good plan for a woman to keep a diary. 

• We intend to kindle, not to extinguish, curiosity, by this slight sketch of a work, abounding with curious quotations and pleasing disquisitions. 

• Second, the book transcends mere theoretical disquisition and empirical analysis, bringing prevalent strains of political theory vividly to life.

• But here as so often in grammatical disquisitions these terms explain nothing.

• Then follows a learned and entertaining disquisition on family nomenclature.