Quare autem opusculum hoc Plutarcho indignum atque suppositum visum. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
What Marjorie Lindon could see in such an opusculum surpassed my comprehension; especially when there was a man of my sort walking about, who adored the very ground she trod upon. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
As it happens, during the second Parisian period, in the thick of the Latin-Averroist controversy, Thomas wrote an opusculum dedicated to the question: what did Aristotle actually teach?. From Wordnik.com. [Saint Thomas Aquinas] Reference
It was addressed to Brutus, and was later than the dialogue which bears his name; cf. the preface, 'accipies hoc parvum opusculum, lucubratum his iam contractioribus noctibus, quoniam illud maiorum vigiliarum munus in tuo nomine apparuit.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Student's Companion to Latin Authors] Reference
Peter Damian, an opusculum on Dominus Vobiscum in P.L. CXLV, 234. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip] Reference
He wrote an excellent opusculum known as "The Art of Dying Well" printed in 1487. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference
Wilhelmi Wodford, ordinis Minorum, opusculum quaestionum quarundam, contra dialogum Joh. From Wordnik.com. [The Private Diary of Dr. John Dee And the Catalog of His Library of Manuscripts] Reference
There then appeared successively in Latin; "De Sanctissimo Christi Jesu amore opusculum". From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference
Among his original works must be mentioned "De verâ nobilitate opusculum" (Paris, 1512). From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery] Reference
"De creatione Urbani VI opusculum"; Scipione Bozzuti (1582), killed in a sack of the city by some exiles in 1591. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy] Reference
I have myself been unable to obtain a sight of a copy, but a more fortunate friend has furnished me with a careful description of the opusculum, which I print in its place in the bibliography. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Max Beerbohm] Reference
It was, however, one of St. Thomas's greatest achievements in philosophy that, especially in his opusculum "De unitate intellectus", he refuted the Arabian interpretation of Aristotle, showed that the active intellect is part of the individual soul, and thus removed the uncertainty which, for the Aristoteleans, hung around the notions of immateriality and immortality. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock] Reference
A small octavo volume, published in Bologna in 1792, "De diuturno terræ motu experimentis physico-mathematicis confirmato opusculum" gives (in the preface) the history and description of Guglielmini's experiments, then resumes in the first article the contents of the "Riflessioni", defends the same in the second article against opponents, and in the third presents the results. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference
(3) "De unitate intellectus contra Averroistas" -- This opusculum refuted a very dangerous and widespread error, viz., that there was but one soul for all men, a theory which did away wth individual liberty and responsibility. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference
De virginitate opusculum (Migne 579-608). From Wordnik.com. [The Deeds of God Through the Franks] Reference
I; praeter opusculum Donzelli, mox dicendum. From Wordnik.com. [Catalogus bibliothecæ historico-naturalis Josephi Banks ... Auctore Jona Dryander, ...] Reference
"opusculum" with a big O, to his "great" undertaking, the Annals. From Wordnik.com. [Tacitus and Bracciolini The Annals Forged in the XVth Century] Reference
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