All 6 Uses of
treatise
in
Gulliver's Travels
- ] Although I intend to leave the description of this empire to a particular treatise, yet, in the mean time, I am content to gratify the curious reader with some general ideas.†
Chpt 1
- She carried a little book in her pocket, not much larger than a Sanson's Atlas; it was a common treatise for the use of young girls, giving a short account of their religion: out of this she taught me my letters, and interpreted the words.†
Chpt 2 *
- To avoid which censure I fear I have run too much into the other extreme; and that if this treatise should happen to be translated into the language of Brobdingnag (which is the general name of that kingdom,) and transmitted thither, the king and his people would have reason to complain that I had done them an injury, by a false and diminutive representation.†
Chpt 2
- Among the rest, I was much diverted with a little old treatise, which always lay in Glumdalclitch's bed chamber, and belonged to her governess, a grave elderly gentlewoman, who dealt in writings of morality and devotion.†
Chpt 2
- I saw another at work to calcine ice into gunpowder; who likewise showed me a treatise he had written concerning the malleability of fire, which he intended to publish.†
Chpt 3
- The professor made me great acknowledgments for communicating these observations, and promised to make honourable mention of me in his treatise.†
Chpt 3
Definition:
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(treatise) a scholarly, lengthy paper written to explore a specific topic