9 sentences with “essays”

His two collections of essays, Ever Since Darwin and The Panda Thumb - 1977 and 1980 respectively - are almost a cult item among students.

In a paperback book of Emerson's essays and, on the inside face of the worn, dusty dust jacket, scrawled in that spider-footed handwriting, is a series of page numbers, with Henry's comments on the side.

Voltaire wrote essays and articles denouncing the unjust punishment of the innocent and personally convinced the French King Louis XV to commute the sentences of certain individuals unjustly convicted of crimes.

Analogical understandings - rare in scientists as a rule - are the central theme of his lectures at Harvard, where he is a professor of geology, and of many of his books and hundreds of scientific articles and essays.

Scientific essays were often written in the vernacular by scientists such as Kepler and Galileo partly because they wanted to differentiate their work from Church doctrine (which, of course, was traditionally written in Latin).

In his articles and essays he displays an almost encyclopaedic general knowledge, and commonly quotes writers from around the world in his notes to make them more readable. For many, he is as good a writer as he is a scientist.

What made "The Spectator" so popular was its style; the essays were intended to persuade, and to cultivate among readers a refined set of behaviours, rejecting deceit and bigotry and focusing instead on polishing people's taste and manners.

Rousseau went on to write novels and essays that attracted enormous attention both in France and abroad, asserting, among other things, that children should learn from nature by experiencing the world, allowing their natural goodness and character to develop.

In the tenth of a series of essays later known as The Federalist Papers, Virginian James Madison wrote: "Democracies have always been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have always been found incompatible with personal security or property rights; and have generally been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths".