The following relation is so curious and entertaining, and the dissertations that accompany it so judicious and instructive, that the translator is confident his attempt stands in need of no apology, whatever censures may fall on the performance.
The dissertations are the only part in which an exact translation has been attempted, and even in those abstracts are sometimes given instead of literal quotations, particularly in the first; and sometimes other parts have been contracted.
Several memorials and letters, which are printed at the end of the dissertations to secure the credit of the foregoing narrative, are entirely left out.
I would not have gone into this
dissertation upon Syrian villages but for the fact that Nimrod, the Mighty Hunter of Scriptural notoriety, is buried in Jonesborough, and I wished the public to know about how he is located.
The conversation was becoming rather a farcical
dissertation upon the relations that should obtain between states, irrespective of size, when it was broken off by a cry from Tambi, who, with another lantern hanging overside at the end of his arm had made a discovery.
The best of his essays, like those on the Earl of Chatham and on the two men who won India for England, Clive and Warren Hastings, are models of the comparatively brief comprehensive
dissertation of the form employed by Johnson in his 'Lives of the Poets.'
But he took them in his hands and, giving her by a sudden impulse his own unfinished
dissertation, with its mystical conclusion, they read each other's compositions in silence.
And here be it said, that whenever it has been convenient to consult one in the course of these
dissertations, I have invariably used a huge quarto edition of Johnson, expressly purchased for that purpose; because that famous lexicographer's uncommon personal bulk more fitted him to compile a lexicon to be used by a whale author like me.
Amid
dissertations on mathematics and philosophy and spoutings and quotations, I sang all the old songs learned in the days when I went from the cannery to the oyster boats to be a pirate--such songs as: "Black Lulu," "Flying Cloud," "Treat my Daughter Kind-i-ly," "The Boston Burglar," "Come all you Rambling, Gambling Men," "I Wisht I was a Little Bird," "Shenandoah," and "Ranzo, Boys, Ranzo."
When, in the course of a deal, those sickening
dissertations on the game would take place, the chevalier invariably drew out his snuff-box with a gesture that was worthy of Mole, looked at the Princess Goritza, raised the cover with dignity, shook, sifted, massed the snuff, and gathered his pinch, so that by the time the cards were dealt he had decorated both nostrils and replaced the princess in his waistcoat pocket,--always on his left side.
In a press conference held on Thursday, Ho De-fen, a professor emeritus at National Taiwan University, released the results of what she called an independent investigation into the authenticity of Tsai's doctoral
dissertation from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), reported Storm Media.
Gus Routledge, who studies countryside management at Scotland's Rural College (SRUC) Craibstone campus in Aberdeen, has been the first student to win a bursary from Reforesting Scotland for his
dissertation.
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