tractate
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The solidly ravening ghoul at the centre of the Tractate Middoth is 'typical James', and Gatiss can only speculate as to what experiences might have fired the writer's dark imaginings.
From BBC • Dec. 23, 2013
The show is expected to air during BBC2's Christmas holiday schedule, alongside a drama adaptation of James' classic novel, The Tractate Middoth, which Gatiss will write and direct.
From The Guardian • Jun. 12, 2013
The Talmud, in Tractate Sanhedrin, guides that courts ought to actively seek – and prefer compromise in – monetary matters, rather than move to judgment.
From Washington Post • Nov. 28, 2012
The main importance of the "Tractate" lay in the doctrine that the state has full rights over the individual, except in relation to freedom of thought and free expression of thought.
From Chapters on Jewish Literature by Abrahams, Israel
Milton's Tractate on Education, addressed to his friend, Samuel Hartlib, was published in 1644.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Lamb, Charles
