In his 1699 book, Acetaria: A Discourse on Sallets, John Evelyn attempted with little success to encourage his fellow Britons to eat fresh salad greens.

A Critical Discourse Analysis of Family Literacy Practices: Power in and Out of Print.

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.

Although not published in his lifetime, a manuscript form of Ad locos planos et solidos isagoge ( Introduction to Plane and Solid Loci ) was circulating in Paris in 1637, just prior to the publication of Descartes ' Discourse.

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

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.

It was mentioned again in 1718 by the Irish deist John Toland, and was mentioned in 1734 by George Sale in The Preliminary Discourse to the Koran:

In 2004 Scott Kellum published a detailed analysis of the literally unity of the entire Farewell Discourse and stated that it shows that it was written by a single author, and that its structure and placement within the Gospel of John is consistent with the rest of that gospel.

Ainsworth died in 1622, or early in 1623, for in that year was published his Seasonable Discourse, or a Censure upon a Dialogue of the Anabaptists, in which the editor speaks of him as a departed worthy.

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

One of the most important early works dedicated to criticism of Machiavelli, especially The Prince, was that of the Huguenot, Innocent Gentillet, whose work commonly referred to as Discourse against Machiavelli or Anti Machiavel was published in Geneva in 1576.

It was followed, in 1644, by Principia Philosophiæ ( Principles of Philosophy ), a kind of synthesis of the Meditations and the Discourse.

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.

In his Discourse on the Origins of Inequality Among Men ( 1754 ), Rousseau maintained that man in a State of Nature had been a solitary, ape-like creature, who was not méchant ( bad ), as Hobbes had maintained, but ( like some other animals ) had an " innate repugnance to see others of his kind suffer " ( and this natural sympathy constituted the Natural Man's one-and-only natural virtue ).

According to the historian of ideas, Arthur O. Lovejoy :" The notion that Rousseau ’ s Discourse on Inequality was essentially a glorification of the State of Nature, and that its influence tended to wholly or chiefly to promote " Primitivism " is one of the most persistent historical errors.

The chain pump was first mentioned in China by the philosopher Wang Chong in his 1st-century-CE Balanced Discourse.

Already René Descartes in his Discourse on the Method had attested to the impact Renaissance planned new towns had upon his own thought, and much evidence exists that the Renaissance streetscape was also the perceptual stimulus that had led to the development of coordinate geometry ( see, e. g., Claudia Lacour Brodsky, Lines of Thought: Discourse, Architectonics, and the Origins of Modern Philosophy, Duke 1996 ).

In 1631, he had published a Discourse on the Religion Anciently Professed by the Irish, a ground-breaking study of the early Irish church, which sought to demonstrate how it differed from Rome and was, instead, much closer to the later Protestant church.

The Disquisition was published shortly after his death as was his other book, Discourse on the Constitution and Government of the United States.

One of the most important early works dedicated to criticism of Machiavelli, especially The Prince, was that of the Huguenot, Innocent Gentillet, Discourse against Machiavelli, commonly also referred to as Anti Machiavel, published in Geneva in 1576.

His A Discourse of Trade, written five years later, was much more significant, however.

One of the main arguments in A Discourse of Trade was that money did not have enough intrinsic value to justify a government's hoarding of it ; policies intended to help accumulate supposedly " valuable " commodities such as silver and gold were not appropriate, because the laws of supply and demand were the main determiner of their value.

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.

* A Discourse of a War with Spain ( 1623 )

# the Discourse to the Greeks, a discussion with Greek philosophers on the character of their gods ;

See Walter J. Ong, Ramus, Method, and the Decay of Dialogue: From the Art of Discourse to the Art of Reason ( Harvard University Press, 1958 ; reissued by the University of Chicago Press, 2004, with a new foreword by Adrian Johns ).

He is perhaps best known for the philosophical statement " Cogito ergo sum " (; ), found in part IV of Discourse on the Method ( 1637 – written in French but with inclusion of " Cogito ergo sum ") and § 7 of part I of Principles of Philosophy ( 1644 – written in Latin ).

* More easily readable versions of Meditations, Objections and Replies, Principles of Philosophy, Discourse on the Method, Correspondence with Princess Elisabeth, and Passions of the Soul.

Rousseau is notable as the philosopher who first proposed, in his second Discourse, that reason ( along with political life ) is not natural to mankind, and not even good for mankind.

Rousseau in his Second Discourse finally took the shocking step of claiming that this traditional account has things in reverse: with reason, language and rationally organized communities all having developed over a long period of time merely as a result of the fact that some habits of cooperation were found to solve certain types of problems, and that once such cooperation became more important, it forced people to develop increasingly complex cooperation — often only to defend themselves from each other.

* 1675 – Some Considerations about the Reconcileableness of Reason and Religion, with a Discourse about the Possibility of the Resurrection

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 ).

In the Olivet Discourse, Jesus states that after the time of tribulation and the sign of the sun, moon and stars going dark the son of man would be seen arriving in the clouds with power and great glory.

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.

Barebone strongly disagreed with these advocates of believers ' baptism, and within a few weeks he issued A Discourse Tending to Prove the Baptism ... to be the Ordinance of Jesus Christ.

* La Boétie, Etienne, The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude ( 16th century ) with an introduction by Murray Rothbard, Free Life Editions, 1975.

In 1650, Lilly wrote a preface to Sir Christopher Heydon's An Astrological Discourse with Mathematical Demonstrations, a defence of astrology written about 1608 which was first published posthumously, largely at the expense of Elias Ashmole.

Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial, or a Discourse of the Sepulchral Urns lately found in Norfolk, is a work by Sir Thomas Browne, published in 1658 as the first part of a two-part work that concludes with The Garden of Cyrus.

In 1724 Collins published his Discourse of the Grounds and Reasons of the Christian Religion, with An Apology for Free Debate and Liberty of Writing prefixed.

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.

With the concept of " biopower ", which first appears in courses concerning the discourse of " race struggle "( Society Must Be Defended 1975-1976 courses ), Foucault uses terms such as mechanism, dispositif, apparatus, Discourse, Genealogy in order to get us to think ( and write about ) of this version of power as continuous, penetrable, observable as opposed to the classical argument seeing man as :" inherent primate disposition for hierarchical social and authoritarian political systems. With a predisposition for social and political hierarchical structures.