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  • In ch. vii; and following chapters St. Paul solves several difficult cases of conscience, some of them of a very delicate nature, falling under what we should now call the tractatus de sexto (sc. præcepto decalogi).

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

  • Tender Buttons is obviously named after the unreadable tractatus Tender Buttons: Objects, Food, Rooms (New York: Claire Marie, 1914), in which Gertrude Stein carries on and on and on, eventually coming up with this bon mot: “Startling a starving husband is not disagreeable.”

    Archive 2009-01-01 2009

  • Artwork: happy famous Artists tractatus logos philosophicus – baudrillard/disneyland embroidery on canvas

    RIP Jean Baudrillard 1929 – 2007 2007

  • Artwork: happy famous Artists tractatus logos philosophicus – baudrillard/disneyland embroidery on canvas

    Vitro Nasu » 2007 » March 2007

  • A work supplementing the Rules, On the Proofs of Conclusions from the Treatise of Rules for Resolving Syllogisms [De probationibus conclusionum tractatus regularum solvendi sophismata], which may not be by William himself, appears in early printed editions and manuscripts.

    William Heytesbury Longeway, John 2007

  • It is likely that Le Grand's edition of Jacobi Rohaulti tractatus physicus (1682) was the first of his Cartesian works accepted at Cambridge.

    Antoine Le Grand Easton, Patricia 2006

  • Walter Burleigh: De puritate artis logicae tractatus longior, with a Revised Edition of the Tractatus brevior, Philotheus Boehner (ed), The Franciscan Institute, St Bonaventure, NY, 1955.

    The Traditional Square of Opposition Parsons, Terence 2006

  • De ente in communi and De ente primo in communi, in Johannis Wyclif Summa de ente, libri primi tractatus primus et secundus, S.H. Thomson, ed.,

    John Wyclif Conti, Alessandro 2005

  • Letter against Werner (MW 145-65) in 1524, a critique of Johann Werner's “Letter concerning the Motion of the Eighth Sphere” (De motu octavae sphaerae tractatus primus).

    Nicolaus Copernicus Rabin, Sheila 2005

  • Imperatore superioris Indiæ, de quibus in secunda et tertia huius tractatus partibus, aliquanto est diffusius narrandum.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

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