dissert

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

From Roundabout Papers by Thackeray, William Makepeace

She soon recognised his love of nature; and this allowed her to dissert on the subject, at once sublime and inexhaustible, with copiousness worthy of the theme.

From Endymion by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

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

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

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