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But yesterday I read a second opinion from an unexpected source: John Calhoun's Disquisition on Government.
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For instance, Boyle, in his 1688 Disquisition writes:
On the Origins of Methodological Naturalism - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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Me at the site of the sarcophagus of John Caldwell Calhoun, VP of the US and author of the truly strange "Disquisition on Government."
Archive 2006-11-01 2006
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In Metapolitics, for instance, there is a piece called "A Speculative Disquisition on the Concept of Democracy."
Alain Badiou: Philosophy is not in twilight Tusar N Mohapatra 2006
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Me at the site of the sarcophagus of John Caldwell Calhoun, VP of the US and author of the truly strange "Disquisition on Government."
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Instead, if things get really out of hand, I'm prepared to summon my spiritual mentor Papa Disquisition.
wild rose roundup daveberta 2005
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At the same time that this was going on, Calhoun was writing his great political theoretical works, Disquisition on Government and the Discourse on the Constitution [and Government] of the United States.
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Disquisition on the Motion of the Heart and Blood in
RECAPITULATION JANE OPPENHEIMER 1968
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World, the formation of Shells, and Pebbles, and Insects, in which Mankind are no more interested, than they would be in a laborious Disquisition into or sage
John Adams diary 9, includes notes and draft essay, 1 - 11 February 1763, [June - July 1763] 1961
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Disquisition on the Past, Present, and Future of Gypsydom, by JAMES
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 Various
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