Meanings (ES + gloss)
disquisición
A lengthy, formal discourse that analyses or explains some topic; (loosely) a dissertation or treatise.
As these disquisitions were not originally intended for the public eye, the writer, several years ago, was induced to limit an impression of them to a small number of copies, that…
It is only by considering the distance to which large quantities of these commodities are carried, […] that we can form any idea of the magnitude of the trade with India by land, a…
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