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Against the supposed translation of the whole     shrines of St. Benedict and St. Scholastica into France, see     Muratori, Antichita, &c., dissert.

From The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March by Butler, Alban

I am not going to dissert on Hood's humor; I am not a fair judge.

From Roundabout Papers by Thackeray, William Makepeace

But it was the Empire, not the Church, which was weak in Italy.—See also Natalis Alex, in sec. 8th dissert.

From The Power Of The Popes by Daunou, Pierre Claude Fran?ois

There is a good review of the opinions of the ancients in general, and of Seneca in particular, on this subject in Justus Lipsius' Manuductio ad Stoicam Philosophiam, lib. iii. dissert.

From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) by Lecky, William Edward Hartpole

On the old French stage, there were these two eminent characteristics of tragedy: Whatever the subject—if Œdipus, and the Plague raging—there must be a love-tale; and the most impassioned persons most continually dissert.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845 by Various