"Now will I pray meekly every discreet person that readeth or heareth this little
treatise, to have my rude inditing for excused, and my superfluity of words, for two causes.
Creswell (Bohn's Classical Library), 1848; with Treatise on Physiognomy, by T.
Hamilton, 1851; Treatise on Rhetorica and Poetica, by T.
It is well worth while carefully to study the several treatises published on some of our old cultivated plants, as on the hyacinth, potato, even the dahlia, &c.; and it is really surprising to note the endless points in structure and constitution in which the varieties and sub-varieties differ slightly from each other.
Many treatises in different languages have been published on pigeons, and some of them are very important, as being of considerably antiquity.
Full of this idea, the scientific gentleman seized his pen again, and committed to paper sundry notes of these unparalleled appearances, with the date, day, hour, minute, and precise second at which they were visible: all of which were to form the data of a voluminous treatise of great research and deep learning, which should astonish all the atmospherical wiseacres that ever drew breath in any part of the civilised globe.
But the scientific gentleman could not rest under the idea of the ingenious treatise he had projected being lost to the world, which must inevitably be the case if the speculation of the ingenious Mr.
As to the scientific gentleman, he demonstrated, in a masterly treatise, that these wonderful lights were the effect of electricity; and clearly proved the same by detailing how a flash of fire danced before his eyes when he put his head out of the gate, and how he received a shock which stunned him for a quarter of an hour afterwards; which demonstration delighted all the scientific associations beyond measure, and caused him to be considered a light of science ever afterwards.
It's an "incomparable
treatise," says Edmond Halley, clerk to the Royal Society for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge in London, who is in charge of publishing Newton's book and has studied the first two parts of the manuscript.
[For the purpose of this article, "
treatise" means a medical article or an excerpt from a medical reference source relating to cause and effects of diseases and/or disabilities.]
Hutson's second conclusion--that Jefferson came to believe that traditional religion was important in the sense of essential to the morals of a republic--is also erroneous because of Jefferson's commitment to Lockean ideas, except that this time those ideas came from the Second
Treatise on Government.
This compelling book rescues Baruch (Benedict) Spinoza's Theologico-Political
Treatise (1663) from undeserved obscurity.
It is presented in the same format as the main
treatise, but it is contained on 12 computer disks formatted for WordPerfect 5.0.
