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For years, the volume — a 19th-century French treatise on the human soul — was brought out for show and tell, and sometimes, according to library lore, used to haze new employees.
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Julia Jacobs, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2024
Claudius Ptolemy, an Alexandrian mathematician and astronomer, formalized this view in the second century AD in his treatise Almagest.
—Danuta Hamlin, Fox News, 18 Feb. 2024
From Edith Wharton’s treatise on décor to a portrait of 1990s Tokyo, the books that designers return to again and again for inspiration.
Jan. 23, 2024, 12:43 p.m.
—Catherine Hong, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2024
Each chapter of The New Leviathans begins with a quotation from Leviathan, Hobbes’s major treatise on state power, as if to provide the reader with a kernel of truth and an ominous warning about what is to come.
—Helena Rosenblatt, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
Embedded in those responses is a treatise on the capabilities of retreads and movie musicals themselves.
—Scott Hocker, theweek, 21 Jan. 2024
From Edith Wharton’s treatise on décor to a portrait of 1990s Tokyo, these are the 11 vintage interiors books that designers return to again and again for inspiration.
—Chris Rhodes Jacob K, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2024
At the time, the bookseller specialized in law treatises, dictionaries and office supplies.
—Maraya King, Twin Cities, 1 Feb. 2024
The original meaning of this clause was to secure (equal) protection of the fundamental rights of persons — including the rights to life and personal security — as these had been expounded in Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England and leading American treatises.
—Christian Schneider, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
Julia Jacobs, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2024
Claudius Ptolemy, an Alexandrian mathematician and astronomer, formalized this view in the second century AD in his treatise Almagest.
—Danuta Hamlin, Fox News, 18 Feb. 2024
From Edith Wharton’s treatise on décor to a portrait of 1990s Tokyo, the books that designers return to again and again for inspiration.
Jan. 23, 2024, 12:43 p.m.
—Catherine Hong, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2024
Each chapter of The New Leviathans begins with a quotation from Leviathan, Hobbes’s major treatise on state power, as if to provide the reader with a kernel of truth and an ominous warning about what is to come.
—Helena Rosenblatt, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
Embedded in those responses is a treatise on the capabilities of retreads and movie musicals themselves.
—Scott Hocker, theweek, 21 Jan. 2024
From Edith Wharton’s treatise on décor to a portrait of 1990s Tokyo, these are the 11 vintage interiors books that designers return to again and again for inspiration.
—Chris Rhodes Jacob K, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2024
At the time, the bookseller specialized in law treatises, dictionaries and office supplies.
—Maraya King, Twin Cities, 1 Feb. 2024
The original meaning of this clause was to secure (equal) protection of the fundamental rights of persons — including the rights to life and personal security — as these had been expounded in Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England and leading American treatises.
—Christian Schneider, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
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treatise
noun
trea·tise
ˈtrēt-əs 
: a book or article examining a subject carefully and completely
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