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I shall sum up this whole dissertation with these words: Workmen, labourers, "prolétaires," destitute and suffering classes, will you improve your condition? You will not succeed by strife, insurrection, hatred, and error. But there are three things which cannot perfect the entire community, without extending these benefits to yourselves; these things are peace, liberty, and security.
Had the inquiry commenced with familiar instances from existing works of art in which music is felt to possess a very vivid power of expression and then been carried backwards to find what it can express and what not, and what are the conditions of its expression, the results might have been valuable and we should have been spared a dissertation resting wholly upon confusion of the meaning of words.
There is nothing further to be done now, but seeing that the bar is right in proportion, position, and fitting. Much false reasoning upon insufficient premises has at times on and off been bestowed upon the subject of the bar and its supposed mysteries. Space at command will not allow of a dissertation on this detail of the constitution of the violin.
Then Barere found an old stone inscribed with three Latin words, and wrote a dissertation upon it, which procured him a seat in a learned Assembly, called the Toulouse Academy of Sciences, Inscriptions, and Polite Literature. At length the doors of the Academy of the Floral Games were opened to so much merit.
The "Antinomies" of Spinoza might make the subject of an amusing, and even instructive, dissertation. Thus, by way of specimen, take the following: God is extended; but, nevertheless, incorporeal. God thinks; but, nevertheless, has no intelligence. God is active; but, nevertheless, has no will.
This, however, is not the place for a dissertation on that most remarkable of noteworthy sorcerer's arts, the making of justice an expensive luxury, while still deluding the people with the notion that the law knows no preferences.
The door opened silently, and Todd, trembling all over, laid his hand on his master's shoulder, cutting short his dissertation. "Marse George, please sah, can I speak to you a minute?" The boy looked as if he had just seen a ghost. "Speak to me! Why haven't you taken my message, Todd?" "Yes, sah dat is can't ye step in de hall a minute, Marse George now right away?"
But it is more to our present purpose to say, that we think the fair writer before us is eminently a mistress of this poetical secret; and, in truth, it was solely for the purpose of illustrating this great charm and excellence in her imagery, that we have ventured upon this little dissertation. Almost all her poems are rich with fine descriptions, and studded over with images of visible beauty.
There was a general murmur of 'Don't carry it any further. The counsel for the Crown had the tact not to enter upon a dissertation as to a singular case of amorous physiology and abandoned the prosecution. "The jury, all of whom were in tears, did not take long to deliberate.
'If it were written in a romance it would hardly be believed, said the other. 'You were going to ask me some questions, said Peter, as though to put an end to any dissertation on the romantic side of the story. 'It is a business matter, he said, 'and we had better be businesslike about it. We can unfold the romance of it later. 'That is my wish, said Purvis gravely.
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