After his retirement from the situation of a teacher, Quintilian devoted his attention to the study of literature, and composed a treatise on the Causes of the Corruption of Eloquence.
For the purposes of this treatise it will perhaps simplify matters to restrict its meaning to the last-mentioned class only, and use it to denote the three great kingdoms which precede the mineral in the order of our evolution.
So many and so varied are the subdivisions of this class that to do them anything like justice one would need to devote a separate treatise to this subject alone.
There is nothing in it that is not up to date, and the whole treatise forms a well-knit unity.
Grammarians had once a simple way of disposing of the subject on which Professor Goodwin has given us this elaborate treatise of three hundred pages.
The letter is a long, labored, and curious document, and comes nearer to a theological treatise than any love-letter we have on record.
The portion of Locke's treatise which was not accepted by the French theorists was that relating to property.
A large portion of this treatise on New England is devoted to an argument to induce the English to found a permanent colony there, of which Smith shows that he would be the proper leader.
In the eighth chapter of Sir George Mackenzie's treatise on "Precedency" (p.
Within the scope of this treatise we can not dilate on this phase.
On this subject he composed a most learned work, the Speculum Juris; from which he obtained the title of Speculator: as also anothertreatise called Repertorium Juris: and a Breviarium Glossarum in Textum Juris Canonici.
Twice in the former part of this treatise we have described the material church and the altar; it followeth that we must add something about their dedication: stating, I.
There is nothing more wanted than a careful treatise on the subject which shall in a compendious form put this and several points depending upon it, such as orientation itself, and praying towards the east, in a clear light.
He also wrote a treatise De Modo Concilii Generalis habendi, probably either suggested by, or preparatory to, that of Lyons.
The important subject of Rood-lofts has been treated with admirable learning by Father Thiers, in his treatise 'Sur les jubes,' to which the reader is referred.
But his true monument is the immortal treatise in which he laid the foundations of terrestrial magnetism and of the experimental science of electricity.
Gilbert's treatise is a skilful literary achievement in which there is no trace to reveal whether any part was written before the rest.
Synesius traces the plan of a treatise on dreams, which was subsequently to be commented on by Cardan, and composes hymns which might serve for the liturgy of the Church of Swedenborg, if a church of illuminati could have a liturgy.
Bernard Gui very much resented the restriction, and though in his sentences there is only the one mention of torture, it is clear from his treatise that he thoroughly approved of it, on account of its great utility.
Accordingly, he had taken a preliminary Treatise on Mineralogy in hand, and puzzled his brains in order to converse learnedly.
Laws and Practice of Chess; Together with an Analysis of the Openings, and a Treatise on End Games.
A Treatiseon Wood Engraving, Historical and Practical.
The editor rightly says that Ranke in his treatise on the affair of Don Carlos, as acute as it is circumstantial, has adopted the only right conclusion for the solution of this mysterious episode of history.
The King himself inspired the French translation of a Latin treatise of the sixteenth century on hunting, by Louis Leroy de Coutances, Libre du roy Charles.
Asa Gray's little treatise on How Plants Grow will also be useful to the beginner who wishes to approach botany from its most attractive side--that of the development of the creature from the seed to seed.
For a discussion of this singular phenomenon, see Treatiseon Heat, p.
Among these may be mentioned a "Treatise on Comets," written on occasion of one which appeared in 1607: in this he suggests that they are planets moving in straight lines.
This and theTreatise on the Equilibrium of Floating Bodies are the only mechanical works which have reached us of this writer, who was by common consent one of the most accomplished mathematicians of antiquity.
Having by these prefatory observations assuaged the public thirst for astronomical novelties, he ventures to introduce the principal subject of the treatise above mentioned.
Galileo tells us himself that he discontinued these researches on meeting with Lucas Valerio's treatise on the same subject.
The fourth Dialogue is devoted entirely to an examination of the tides, and is a development and extension of the treatise already mentioned to have been sent to the Archduke Leopold, in 1618.
He refers to a treatise by Hulsius for his authority in attributing the Proportional Compass to Burgi, a Swiss astronomer of some celebrity.
Before we enter upon that discussion, it will be proper to mention another famous treatise which Galileo produced soon after his return from Rome to Florence, in 1612.
A Treatise on Fortification, by Galileo, was found in 1793, and is contained among the documents published by Venturi.
To the description which Galileo published of his compass, he added a short treatise on the method of measuring heights and distances with the quadrant and plumb line.
Treatise of Moral Philosophy mentioned by Jebb, on the authority of Bale and Pits, as it is very likely to have been the seventh part of the Opus Majus.
According to this Catalogue, a Treatiseon Moral Philosophy forms part of Roger Bacon's MSS.
By a scrap of a book, apparently of the sixteenth century, it seems to be a Treatise by J.
From the remote time when Lucian published his treatise How History ought to be Written until the depressing moment when Bishop Stubbs first attempted to write it, there has been an enormous divergence of thought on this point.
A Treatise on Hygiene, with Special Reference to the Military Service.
But he does not put himself into his treatise any more than the other into his novel.
Another man writes a treatise of forty pages and gives you his views out of his own mouth.
It was not, like my previous treatise on the Tragic, treated under three headings, according to the Hegelian model, but written straight ahead, without any subdivision into sections.
When the treatise was given back to me, I found it full of apt and instructive marginal notes from Sibbern's hand.
This was the society before which I read the treatise on The Daemonic, and it was Kappers who, with his well-developed intelligence, would not admit the existence of anything of the sort.
He had returned from Germany, where he had gone to prepare a treatise on Schiller, on account of the sudden death of Madame Taine's mother.
The clearest and most faithful account of the Dualist doctrine is found in the treatise De Iside et Osiride, ascribed to Plutarch.
Anquetil had already tried to show, in a memoir on Plutarch, that the data of the "Avesta" fully agree with the account of the Magian religion given in the treatise on "Isis and Osiris.
He varied his work of preparing the ships with spending some part of his time on his treatise on the prophecies, while a friar named Gaspar Gorricio helped him in the labor.
Las Casas is said to have once possessed a treatise by Columbus on the information obtained from Portuguese and Spanish pilots, concerning western lands; and he also refers to Libros de Memorias del Almirante.
Even a century later, when Robert Hues published his treatise on the Molineaux globe (1592), the difficulties were in large part uncontrollable.
He had received, in 1463, the dedication by Regiomontanus of his treatise on the quadrature of the circle.
This letter is even more than his treatise on the prophets a sorrowful index of his wandering reason.
Another nautical text-book at this time was a treatise by John Holywood, a Yorkshire man, who needs to be a little dressed up when we think of him as the Latinized Sacrobosco.
The Declaration itself perhaps shows closer affiliations with John Locke's Treatise on Civil Government, which may be taken as a statement of the principles contended for in the Puritan Revolution of 1688.
In 1737 he published his first treatise on slavery, distributing it far and wide, especially among the members of the rising generation.
Throughout the treatise an effort is made to show the arduousness of the task of the Governor-of-all-work had to do and how he summoned to his aid the constructive element and reestablished order.
He finally expressed his sentiments in a publication called the "Mystery of Inquiry," a brief treatiseon the evil of the institution of slavery.
The author of the famous Treatise on Government, which was in part the inspiration of our Declaration of Independence, did not feel that slavery was in any way incompatible with the doctrine of freedom.
The work then becomes a treatise on the rise and fall of a great corporation with business as its objective rather than the sketch of a mere colony.
It strikes one as being a little strange to read in this economic treatise such captions as "The Vegetable Lamb" and "Cotton Mythology.
University of Glasgow, in his treatiseon the "Ranks of Society.
