disquisition

• “The word disquisition has appeared in 15 New York Times articles in the past year, including on June 12 in the essay The Ahab Parallax: 'Moby”

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• “The principal view in this disquisition is to enable those, who have already learnt to draw, to make themselves easily masters of painting in any manner they may choose; by which assistance many persons of genius, who, from ignorance of the nature and use of colours, might be deterred from it, may be both induced & enabled to attempt painting successfully, and bring those talents into practice, which would be otherwise lost to the public and themselves.”

  The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe

• “The principal view in this disquisition is to enable those, who have already learnt to draw, to make themselves easily masters of painting in any manner they may choose; by which assistance many persons of genius, who, from ignorance of the nature and use of colours, might be deterred from it, may be both induced and enabled to attempt painting successfully, and bring those talents into practice, which would be otherwise lost to the public and themselves.”

  The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe

• “To Mr. Johnson, of course, a 237-word disquisition on a Grecian formula for solvency is tantamount to "War and Peace.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The Soul of Brevity

• “Later, as part of a rambling disquisition, which is allowed because, under the Commissions 'rules, he is permitted to represent himself, Mohammed addressed the desire for martyrdom that has also been prominent in previous hearings.”

  Andy Worthington: Chaos and Lies: Why Obama Was Right To Halt The Guantanamo Trials

• “To this may be added that too subtle disquisition, which is an invention unsanctioned by Scripture, about the relations of those acts which are performed by us.”

  The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2

• “Yet as any two marriages in society will yield a certain number of resemblances, so will any two wars in history, whether war itself be regarded as abstract or concrete, -- a question that seems to have exercised some grammatical minds, and ought therefore to be settled before any further step is taken in this disquisition, which is the disquisition of a grammarian.”

  The Creed of the Old South 1865-1915

• “_ When we adhere to one point, whatever the form, it should rather be called a disquisition than a conversation.”

  Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection

• “His value to the blogosphere was clear from his very first post, a thousand-word disquisition on how boards of directors are a bit like an tonsils: "a largely useless, if mostly harmless, institution".”

  Felix Salmon - All posts

• “He pursued, with visible pleasure, that kind of disquisition which was naturally suggested by them.”

  Wieland; or the Transformation. An American Tale.

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