I have written some very dry lucubrations in periodicals, chiefly political, or critical upon other subjects than art.
But it would be hazardous to assume that German statesmen were seriously influenced for years by the lucubrations of Mr. Houston Stewart Chamberlain and his followers.
I have several hints and advertisements from unknown hands, that some who are enemies to my labours design to demand the fashionable way of satisfaction for the disturbance my lucubrations have given them.
Many of his infantile or silly lucubrations are petty, superficial details, and a benevolent friend, with some experience of life and some common-sense, could easily have preserved him in advance from making himself ridiculous.
It is a trouble for any gentleman to have to notice the lucubrations of so ill-bred and ignorant a person as Mr. Whistler, but your publication of his insolent letter left me no option in the matter.
I have many other things to say of this man of war, which I shall communicate in a post or two; mean while, it is but reasonable that you should be indulged with some respite from those weary lucubrations of Yours, J.
Christophe had to bow to it, though it was a pure formality which served to weed out thelucubrations of amateurs which were sometimes a nuisance.
Mannheim used to read aloud his lucubrations to them.
Brownson's articles, or their other lucubrations on the subjects treated in this book, will perceive that its author has not diluted them at all, but has rather infused some of his own strong tea into their tepid dish-water.
The result of my lucubrations I hope to forward in my next, under the title of The Ideal of a Magazine; and to mark those departments, in the filling up of which, I flatter myself with the prospect of being a fellow labourer.
Rhyme was the vehicle in which their lucubrations were presented; verse the medium selected for their thoughts.
When I consulted the subject catalogue, to see under what head it had been customary to classify these lucubrations on Pi, I found, sure enough, that it was Mathematics Sec.
The lucubrations of Piazzi Smyth, like those of Miss Delia Bacon, called into existence a considerable quantity of eccentric literature.
From these grotesque rigmaroles it is not a long step to the lucubrations of the writers in whose bonnets the bee of prophecy has buzzed until they have come to fancy themselves skilled interpreters.
But he spoke of the lucubrations themselves as valuable only where suggestive of some truths which Forman had accidentally approached, without being aware of their true nature and importance.
These lucubrations first tempted the writer of the memoir towards the studies in which the remainder of his life had been consumed.
But along with these shadowy lucubrations were treatises of a more uncommon and a more startling character,--discussions on various occult laws of nature, and detailed accounts of analytical experiments.
The work itself, at once cautious and suggestive, is not one of the least obligations which philosophy and religion alike owe to the lucubrations of English medical men.
It would be amusing were it not melancholy to read the lucubrations of antiquaries of the early part of the nineteenth century on the relics of the past found in such abundance on the moor.
Lange of California (a German), attracted by these documents, sent them his own lucubrations on this subject.
We must own all their lucubrationshave contributed but slightly to the elucidation of truth.
Thinking sometimes of the grave lucubrationsto which I was attracted by my subject, I really as afraid that I would be troublesome.
I treated the matter in an easy vein, not without some hints of deep learning, and made fun of the lucubrations of the two physicians.
My part was to criticise them in hammer verses--a kind of doggerel then much in fashion, and Zorzi took care to distribute my lucubrations far and wide.
His baggage is seized at his quarters and at Tully-Veolan, and is found to contain a stock of pestilent Jacobitical pamphlets, enough to poison a whole country, besides the unprinted lucubrations of his worthy friend and tutor Mr. Pembroke.
As the public were thus likely to be deprived of the benefit arising from his lucubrationsby the selfish cowardice of the trade, Mr. Pembroke resolved to make two copies of these tremendous manuscripts for the use of his pupil.
These two gifted men were commentators upon the works of the Stagirite, and authors of many interesting lucubrations of their own.
One may, however, bear in mind that as the views of the older nominalist are reported only by his enemies, so our knowledge of William's lucubrations comes mainly from the exacerbated pen of Peter Abaelard.
For he surely did not conceive the elements of his discussion to lie in the lucubrations or discoveries of the natural reason; but in the data of revelation, and their explanation by saintly doctors.
But the upshot of his lucubrations during these latest hours of his is this, that such hours are almost more uncomfortable than the minutes of the actual execution can possibly be.
The lucubrations of the journalists annoy you who know the true position of affairs, in the same way as the lucubrations of the profane about diphtheria annoy me as a doctor.
Whatever weakness there may be in her lucubrations on Moses, it is fully matched by her lucubrations on what she calls "Bibliolatry.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lucubrations" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
