That after all his years of effort to become a composer, he should now, now when he was still stoutly replying to the critics of his Discourse on the Arts and Sciences, be so close to a success in music and have to reject it.

As a formal concept, the method has variously been ascribed to Alhazen, René Descartes ( Discourse on the Method ) and Galileo Galilei.

Analytic geometry has traditionally been attributed to René Descartes Descartes made significant progress with the methods in an essay entitled La Geometrie ( Geometry ), one of the three accompanying essays ( appendices ) published in 1637 together with his Discourse on the Method for Rightly Directing One's Reason and Searching for Truth in the Sciences, commonly referred to as Discourse on Method.

His works on ascetism, include the aforementioned Life of St. Anthony, as well as a Discourse on Virginity, a short work on Love and Self-Control, and a treatise On Sickness and Health which is only preserved in fragments.

Descartes's original statement was "", from his Discourse on Method ( 1637 ).

Among these were: Commentaries on the Old Testament, Thesaurus, Discourse Against Arians Commentary on St. John's Gospel, and Dialogues on the Trinity.

:* – Discourse on Defilement

Shakespeare on Silent Film: An Excellent Dumb Discourse.

Between 1748 and 1751 the Philosophes reached their most influential period, as Montesquieu published Spirit of Laws ( 1748 ) and Jean Jacques Rousseau published Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences ( 1750 ).

* 1955 Colette ( Discourse on the reception at the Royal Academy of Belgium ) – Discourse on the reception at the Académie française

His Discourse on the Origin of Inequality and his On the Social Contract are cornerstones in modern political and social thought.

Rousseau's 1750 " Discourse on the Arts and Sciences " was awarded the first prize and gained him significant fame.

In 1755, Rousseau completed his second major work, the Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men ( the Discourse on Inequality ), which elaborated on the arguments of the Discourse on the Arts and Sciences.

It was followed by Academia Scientiarum ( 1687 ), and by A Moral Discourse of the Power of Interest ( 1690 ), dedicated to Robert Boyle, Abercromby's patron in the 1680s.

* David Gauthier, Practical Reasoning: The Structure and Foundations of Prudential and Moral Arguments and Their Exemplification in Discourse ( Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963 ).

Pierpont's many published sermons include, among others, The Burning of the Ephesian Letters ( 1833 ), Jesus Christ Not a Literal Sacrifice ( 1834 ), New Heavens and a New Earth ( 1837 ), Moral Rule of Political Action ( 1839 ), National Humiliation ( 1840 ), and A Discourse on the Covenant with Judas ( 1842 ).

* Mercier Lectures: " The Response of Discourse Ethics to the Moral Challenge of the Human Situation As Such, Especially Today " ( 2001 )

* Habermas, Jürgen, “ Discourse Ethics: Notes on a Program of Philosophical Justification ” in Habermas, Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action, trans.

* The Logic of Moral Discourse ( 1950 – 1951 )

His early writings sought to explain and advertise his insurance and mortgage schemes and his building developments ; for example, in his Apology for the Builder: or a Discourse showing the Cause and Effects of the Increase of Building of 1685 — written in the aftermath of his fight with the lawyers of Gray's Inn — Barbon justified ( anonymously ) his expansionary building policy by describing the benefits it would bring to London and Britain as a whole.

* Apology for the Builder ; or a Discourse showing the Cause and Effects of the Increase of Building ( 1685 )

In Discourse on the Arts and Sciences Rousseau argues that the arts and sciences have not been beneficial to humankind, because they arose not from authentic human needs but rather as a result of pride and vanity.

In this essay, which elaborates on the ideas introduced in the Discourse on the Arts and Sciences, Rousseau traces man's social evolution from a primitive state of nature to modern society.

* Discourse on the Arts and Sciences ( Discours sur les sciences et les arts ), 1750

The Swiss-French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau contrasted Sparta favourably with Athens in his Discourse on the Arts and Sciences, arguing that its austere constitution was preferable to the more cultured nature of Athenian life.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau strongly praised the simple life in many of his writings, especially in his Discourse on the Arts and Sciences ( 1750 ) and Discourse on Inequality ( 1754 ).

* Jean-Jacques Rousseau wins the prize of the Academy of Dijon for his Discourse on the Arts and Sciences.

A little before his death he had also formed a scheme of writing a Discourse on the Arts of Painting, Sculpture, Etching, & c., but when he died he had made but little progress with it.

The Swiss-French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau contrasted Sparta favourably with Athens in his Discourse on the Arts and Sciences, arguing that its austere constitution was preferable to the more cultured nature of Athenian life.

Though he was not recognized by the prize committee for this piece ( as he had been for the Discourse on the Arts and Sciences ) he nevertheless published the text in 1755.

* Jacques Derrida: Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences

With " Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences ", his contribution to a 1966 colloquium on structuralism at Johns Hopkins University, his work began to assume international prominence.

Derrida first received major attention outside France with his lecture, " Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences ," delivered at Johns Hopkins University in 1966 ( and subsequently included in Writing and Difference ).

* " Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences "

Its full name is Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences ( French title: Discours de la méthode pour bien conduire sa raison, et chercher la vérité dans les sciences ).

In 1966, de Man met Jacques Derrida at a conference at Johns Hopkins University on structuralism during which Derrida first delivered his essay " Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences ".

Jonathan Potter ( born 1956 ) is Professor of Discourse Analysis and, from February 2010, Head of the Department of Social Sciences, at Loughborough University and one of the originators of discursive psychology.

In 1586 Angel Day dedicated The English Secretary, the first epistolary manual for writing model letters in English, to Oxford, and William Webbe praised him as " most excellent among the rest " of ourt poets in his Discourse of English Poetry.

* Discourse on Political Economy English translation

* Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men English translation

( 1 ) William Webbe's Discourse of English Poetrie ( 1586 ) surveys and criticises the early Elizabethan poets and their works.

The Radical Rhetoric of the English Deists: The Discourse of Skepticism, 1680 – 1750.

The ' Preliminary Discourse ' became very well known, and unauthorized ( and in the case of English not entirely accurate ) translations were made into English, German and Italian.

None of his plays was acted except Love's Dominion, announced as a " pattern for the reformed stage " ( 1654 ), that title being altered in 1664 to Love's Kingdom, with a Discourse of the English Stage.

A Discourse of the English Stage, was reprinted in WC Hazlitt's English Drama and Stage ( Roxburghe Library, 1869 ); Robert Southey, in his Omniana ( 1812 ), protested against the wholesale depreciation of Flecknoe's works.

* Anson, Chris M. " Book Lists, Cultural Literacy, and the Stagnation of Discourse " The English Journal 77. 2 ( February 1988 ), pp. 14-18.

On 20 October 1758 Blackstone was confirmed as the first Vinerian Professor of English Law, immediately embarking on another series of lectures and publishing a similarly successful second treatise, titled A Discourse on the Study of the Law.

* Jonathan Swift-Mr. C -- n's Discourse of Free-thinking, Put into Plain English ( see above, Collins )

* Richard Flecknoe – A Discourse of the English Stage

His most noted works include A Discourse of the Adventures of Master FJ ( 1573 ), an account of courtly sexual intrigue and one of the earliest English prose fictions ; The Supposes, ( performed in 1566, printed in 1573 ), an early translation of Ariosto and the first comedy written in English prose, which was used by Shakespeare as a source for The Taming of the Shrew ; the frequently anthologised short poem " Gascoignes wodmanship " ( 1573 ); and " Certayne Notes of Instruction concerning the making of verse or

The play, in spite of its felicity of diction, lacks dramatic interest, and the criticism of Richard Flecknoe ( Short Discourse of the English Stage ), that it seemed " full of flowers, but rather stuck in than growing there ," is not altogether unjustified.

The earliest praise of Munday is contained in William Webbe's " Discourse of English Poetrie ," 1586, where his " Sweete Sobs of Sheepheardes and Nymphes " is especially pointed out as " very rare poetrie.

This aspect of his extensive work in diverse languages such as Kota, Hidatsa, and Cherokee, and of course Hebrew ( ancient and modern ), as well as English, did not begin to see publication until his " Culture and Style " and " Discourse Analysis " papers in 1952.

He wrote Discours sur le colonialisme ( Discourse on Colonialism ) ( 1950 ; English translation 1953 ), a denunciation of European colonial racism, decadence, and hypocrisy that was republished in the French review Présence Africaine in 1955.

* The Lion's Roar of Queen Srimala Discourse English translation.

In the Theravāda canon ( in particular, the " Discourse Basket " or Sutta Piṭaka ) the meaning of nikāya is roughly equivalent to the English collection, and is used to describe groupings of discourses according to theme, length, or other categories.