He paused in the midst of his dissertation; for the lieutenant said in a clear voice: The Frenchmen literally took us for cannibals.
"Landolin"
Berthold Auerbach
And a brief narrative of the imposture will probably give a more vivid idea of it than any abstract dissertation.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill
He published a dissertation on Light, Heat, and Fire, and in his Theory of the World, 1795, attributes geological phenomena to the action of fire.
"A Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers of All Ages and Nations"
Joseph Mazzini Wheeler