I am not going to follow him into a disquisition upon the rival effects upon public morals of horse racing, bridge-playing and greyhound racing.
It seemed to me, from these disquisitions, that the end of his speech was far from being of the quality of its earlier portions.
We have listened for some time to a disquisition of legal opinion.
We have already had learned disquisitions into history, and for heaven's sake do not let us have any more.
But here as so often in grammatical disquisitions these terms explain nothing.
Vergerio's sermons were innovative in not being structured as disquisitions on scriptural passages but as panegyrical orations.
But let us assume that to be the view, what then becomes of his historical disquisition on the origin of tithe in earlier days?
The oral genre of the early modern academic or professorial disputation typically had a two-part structure: an opening disquisition, as above, then the theses for disputation, as below.
