According to historical tracts cited by Mr. Chatwin, the princess led a rather notorious social life there.
Tolstoy's novel, with its hundreds of characters, complex subplots, sermonizing and historical tracts, might seem an unwieldy source.
He footnotes both speeches and conversations with memorized recitations of historical tracts -- letters from Madison, writings by John Locke -- almost always to support his proposition that the founders recognized government's subordination to God.
Karen Treviño, the chief of the natural sounds and night skies division of the National Park Service, a system that includes hundreds of parks, monuments and historical tracts, said the noise issues varied widely.
A Renaissance man in the age of Enlightenment, Frederick played the flute and composed symphonies, was a patron of the arts, corresponded with the philosopher Voltaire and wrote philosophical and historical tracts of his own.
Alas, information on what's actually inside the new book is scarce, although to judge by the cover – which depicts a smiling, cardigan-clad Gurbanguli gently fondling a handsome steed – it is less philosophical-historical tract and more coffee table tribute to Turkmenistan's Akhal Tekke horse breed.
For example, the Common Core dictates that by fourth grade, public school students devote half of their reading time in class to historical documents, scientific tracts, maps and other "informational texts" — like recipes and train schedules.
Jamalzadah also translated many literary works from English, German, and French into Persian and wrote a number of historical, sociopolitical, and economic tracts.
Few practitioners of the form seem prepared to learn from any writer later than Scott, though Virginia Woolf in Orlando (1928) and Between the Acts (1941)—made bold attempts to squeeze vast tracts of historical time into a small space and thus make them as fictionally manageable as the events of a single day.
The genre embraced not only fiction but also works of a near-historical nature, pious tracts, books of practical information, guidebooks, evaluations of courtesans and actors, and miscellaneous essays.
