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"Georgius Agricula also was of opinion that it was a mere delusion of the devil to inveigle the avaricious and unwary into his clutches, and in his treatise 'de re Metallica, lays particular stress on the mysterious words pronounced by those persons who employed the divining rod during his time.
In the belief that he had found the missing link he planned, toward the end of 1792, a treatise to be known as 'Kallias, or Concerning Beauty'. It was to take the form of a dialogue, to be written in a pleasing style, with a plenty of illustration, merits to which Kant could lay no claim, and to review the whole history of aesthetic theorizing.
"I fear that I bungled the injection terribly, although I had carefully studied the plates in a treatise on anatomy Gray's, I think. However, if my methods were clumsy, they were quite effectual. I carried out the process on the evening of the third day; and when I locked up the house that night, I had the satisfaction of knowing that poor John's remains were secure from corruption and decay.
His treatise "On the Workmanship of God, or the Formation of Man," is almost entirely an argument to design from the phenomena of man's physical and mental nature.
Further, I should like him to know the elements of physical science, and especially of physics and chemistry, and I should take care that this elementary knowledge was real. I should like my aspirant to be able to read a scientific treatise in Latin, French, or German, because an enormous amount of anatomical knowledge is locked up in those languages.
An apartment is specially appropriated to the systematic order adopted by HAUeY in his new treatise on mineralogy; another is reserved for the method of WERNER. In both these oryctognostic collections, minerals of all countries are indiscriminately admitted.
When Voltaire visited Paris in 1778 he was acclaimed by crowds as the defender of Calas and the Sirvens. His disinterested practical activity against persecution was of far more value than the treatise on Toleration which he wrote in connexion with the Calas episode. It is a poor work compared with those of Locke and Bayle.
But because I have essayed to expound the chief of these discoveries in a treatise which certain considerations prevent me from publishing, I cannot make the results known more conveniently than by here giving a summary of the contents of this treatise. It was my design to comprise in it all that, before I set myself to write it, I thought I knew of the nature of material objects.
For them to live was Christ, and therefore they well knew the gain of dying. In proportion as temporal blessings were eminently doubtful, so spiritual and eternal benefits were precious. This treatise was one of those ten excellent manuscripts found already prepared for the press, after the unexpected decease of its pious author.
By Charles Dudley Warner In accordance with the advice of Diogenes of Apollonia in the beginning of his treatise on Natural Philosophy "It appears to me to be well for every one who commences any sort of philosophical treatise to lay down some undeniable principle to start with" we offer this: All men are created unequal.
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