The most ancient of all books on Buddhism, the Lalita Vistara written some eighteen centuries ago, six centuries later than Buddha himself, contains a number of dissertations on the illusiveness and vanity of the things of this world.
One spirit, who signed himself "Balthasar Grimod de la Reyniere," dictated funny dissertationson the art of cooking.
Their dissertations were afterwards read before an attentive audience.
When I took the role of writing-medium, I generally produced astronomical or philosophical dissertations signed "Galileo.
Various dissertations by Liebig and Dumas in Annalen, and elsewhere.
The number of new facts added by Black to the data of chemistry was not large; but by his lectures--which are original dissertations of the highest value--he did splendid service in advancing the science of chemistry.
As for politicians, they do not abound with that species of men so much as we; but as ours are not so famous for writing as for extemporary dissertationsin coffee-houses, they are more annoyed with memoirs of this nature also than we are.
I am called off from public dissertations by a domestic affair of great importance, which is no less than the disposal of my sister Jenny for life.
He published first a collection of Dissertations sur l'histoire civile et ecclesiastique de Paris (3 vols.
The Attis of Caius Valerius Catullus Translated into English Verse, with Dissertations On the Myth of Attis, on the Origin of Tree-Worship, and on the Galliambic Metre By Grant Allen, B.
Illustrations of Shakespeare, and of Ancient Manners: with Dissertations on the Clowns and Fools of Shakespeare; on the collection of Popular Tales entitled Gesta Romanorum; and on the English Morris Dance.
Scientific journals become filled with numerous dissertations about it, academies decree crowns and medals to the author of the precious discovery.
Ebba said, "I do not know the dissertations of academies, like Eric.
And these dissertations are written with an eloquence and power unexampled in a work of so much learning.
In his briefer dissertations Beattie discussed Memory and Imagination, Fable and Romance, the Effects of Poetry and Music, Laughter, the Sublime, etc.
Omitting a few dissertations that have lost the interest they had when the subjects they discussed were burning questions of the time, this volume retains the whole machinery of Southey's book.
These dialogues with a meditative and patriotic ghost form separate dissertations upon various questions that concern the progress of society.
In it she gave an exposition of the philosophy of Leibnitz and dissertations on space, time and force.
It was, then, an easy matter for them to write poetry and dissertations in the languages of Horace and Plato.
Two of her Latin dissertations on certain physical problems were published in the Commentaries of the Bologna Institute.
The competing dissertations were signed with mottoes, not with names, and the jury of the Academy made the award in utter ignorance that the winner was a woman.
Yet the very titles of even a few out of the very many critical dissertations appended to the "Lives of the Saints," will show how very varied and how very valuable were the purely historical labours of the Bollandists.
The principal cause of our troubles in these matters is not, however, to be found so much in the separate dissertations in their original publication, as in the collected editions of them by Haller and others.
And that when a collection of theses or dissertations is published under the name of a praeses as his "opera" it is merely in a secondary literary sense, viz.
Dissertations and commentaries on Petrarch, in all the diffuseness characteristic of the age and the nation, crowd the Italian libraries.
It consists of thirteen relections, as Victoria calls them, or dissertations on different subjects, related in some measure to theology, at least by the mode in which he treats them.
However, in one or two of my Dissertations I could not come at the Nature of the Subject I treated of without enquiring into the History of it: as in those upon the Origin of Poetry in general, upon Epigram, and Satire.
Nor shall I here draw a Comparison between the ancient dramatic Writers and the Moderns; this I shall attempt in the distinct Dissertations that are to follow.
Dissertations which were undoubtedly his circulated in manuscript, and were printed posthumously, if ever.
Had he been not merely a disciple of the great scholars of his age, but himself a pioneer, his dissertations and conclusions would equally have been drowned in the flood of later knowledge.
The chief French dissertations upon the question of cremation are, however, those of Dr.
The literature of medical science is full of dissertations on this subject, yet very little, if anything, is positively known of the exact means by which the alteration is achieved.
In these volumes of l'Abbe Gerbet, introductions and dissertations upon Christian symbolism and church history lead to observations full of grace or grandeur, and to beautiful and touching pictures.
Footnote 38: See the xxvth and xxxth dissertations of the Antiquitates Medii Ævi of Muratori.
As the product of an honest and earnest mind, his doctrinal dissertations have at least the merit of sincerity.
In this point of view the appendix annexed to the lectures is also valuable; and the four copious appendixes ordissertations following the edition of Reid's works, are more valuable still.
There are in the Memoirs of the Academy of Belles Lettres(998) two learned dissertations upon the Assyrian empire, and particularly on the reign and actions of Semiramis.
They that are curious to make deeper researches into this matter, may read the dissertations of Abbé Banier and M.
The reader may consult, on this subject, two learned dissertations of Abbé Renaudot, inserted in the second volume of The History of the Academy of Inscriptions.
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