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In my mind's eye, I saw Jesus, with Colton on his lap, brushing past all the seminary degrees, knocking down theological treatises stacked high as skyscrapers, and boiling down fancy words like propitiation and soteriology to something a child could understand: "I had to die on the cross so that people on earth could come see my Dad." (source)treatises = scholarly, lengthy papers -- each written to explore a specific topic
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The good of the treatise is thoroughly discussed in your history books.† (source)
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Some schoolmates and I were in Ezra Malik's garden studying a Talmudic treatise.† (source)
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He's writing a six-volume treatise on the Chinese revolution.† (source)
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Thumbing through his papers, he drew from beneath our treatise a thick sheaf.† (source)
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Main work: A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (1710).† (source)
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He was reading a long Talmudic treatise on obedience.† (source)
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While the stories were vivid, the lectures were abstract, treatises on obscure philosophical subjects, and it was to these abstractions that I devoted most of my study.† (source)
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Her newest blog post was titled "The John Hughes Blues," and it was an in-depth treatise on her six favor ite John Hughes teen movies, which she divided into two separate trilogies: The "Dorky Girl Fantasies" trilogy (Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink, and Some Kind of Wonderful) and the "Dorky Boy Fantasies" trilogy (The Breakfast Club, Weird Science, and Ferris Bueller's Day Off).† (source)
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She admired the shelves packed with thick law books and treatises, few of which had been touched in years.† (source)
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Now it seems the doctor is going to publish a treatise in favor of Governor Andros and the new government, and John just couldn't stomach it any longer.† (source)
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And so the system broke down, the Empire collapsed, and a long sullen silence settled over a billion hungry worlds, disturbed only by the pen scratchings of scholars as they labored into the night over smug little treatises on the value of a planned political economy.† (source)
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Enstice's conclusion was further discredited by Dr. Werner Spitz, who had authored the medical treatise Enstice had relied on in her forensic pathology training.† (source)
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He kept in place the hard, somber English furniture made of wood that sighed in the icy cold of dawn, but he consigned to the attic the treatises on viceregal science and romantic medicine and filled the bookshelves behind their glass doors with the writings of the new French school.† (source)
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An effort made for the performance of anything; a trial, attempt, or endeavor; a test or experiment; a literary composition intended to prove some particular point or illustrate a particular subject, not having the importance of a regular treatise; a short disquisition on a subject of taste, philosophy, or common life.† (source)
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Thus it was Hume, Kant said, who "aroused me from my dogmatic slumbers" and caused him to write what is now regarded as one of the greatest philosophical treatises ever written, the Critique of Pure Reason, often the subject of an entire University course.† (source)
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