The incident which gave rise to the debate satirized in the following verses was the unsuccessful attempt of Drayton and Sayres to give freedom to seventy men and women, fellow-beings and fellow-Christians.
Stephens in the debate on the Civil Rights Bill was admitted to be one of the most eloquent and scholarly speeches ever delivered in Congress.
Therefore, the Panama Congress served only to excite debate on the slavery issue and the recognition question, and this last became a rallying cry for the opponents of the administration.
Thus the debate continued till after midnight, when several of the assembly, seeing no prospect of a termination, fell asleep, and others went away.
Every now and then some one challenges you to a discussion, and nearly every one who delivers lectures, or speeches, attacking you, or your views, says that you are afraid publicly to debate these questions.
He relies on assertion, and in all debate attacks the motive of his opponent instead of answering his arguments.
Even the Inquisition was powerless to restore peace between the raging factions and, in 1598, the strictest orders were sent to all the universities, forbidding debate or discussion on the subject and any allusion to it in lectures.
The suggestions of the bishops, and especially the expulsion of the New Christians, were the subject of muchdebate and long consultas.
In the conference at Fontainebleau with Du Plessis Mornay, it has been mentioned already that he had a confessed advantage; but victory in debate follows the combatant rather than the cause.
Owing to the time taken up by the debate on the Home Rule Bill, the Government found it impossible to do more than introduce its local option measure in 1893.
But, after considerable debate on the subject, a new measure was hastily brought before the Senate, at the instigation of the Governor, the Hon.
Commenting on the debate in June, 1877, Punch defended the maintenance of the gallows as an ultima ratio legum--much on the lines of J.
The debate on the Address in the session of 1889 was prolonged and acrimonious.
In his comments on the debate on Mr. Gladstone's resolution, Punch deplores the weakness and dissensions of the Opposition and supports the bolder spirits.
He moved on, and again halted to debate the situation.
The heated debatewas still in progress in the outer room, and nearly exhausted though he was, Jack immediately scrambled to his feet and tiptoed to the window.
An animated debate which was in progress ceased as he entered, and someone exclaimed, "Here he is now.
The girls on the veranda were still in dejected debate as the boys reappeared.
Come on, Alex, until we have further debate with the distinguished Turk up in the garret.
Following this feeling, however, came one of pity for the unfortunate man; and after a silent debate with himself, Jack followed him.
This last assertion will always be the main point at issue in any genuine debate between classicist and romanticist.
This whole question as to the proper function of art goes to the root of the debate between the classicist and the Rousseauist.
In the course of a debate in the Irish House of Commons, on the 28th of October, upon Sir Henry Cavendish's motion for a retrenchment of the public expenditure violent altercation had taken place between the rival orators.
With the debate of this day terminated a friendship which had lasted more than the fourth part of a century.
The Prince is recovered; that is all the domestic news, except a most memorable debate last Friday, in the House of Commons.
In the course of a debate in the House of Commons, on the 3d of June, Governor Johnstone told Colonel Barr`e, that he was making a scaramouch of himself.
This debate prevented another on the Marriage-bill, which Charles Fox wants to get repealed, and which he told me he was going to labour.
He had turned his eyes from one speaker to another as the debatewent on, and had gently rubbed the back of his head against the panelling, as if to stimulate thought.
There followed a long and earnest debate between Rodolphus and his mother, which ended at last in her consent that Annie should go.
We debate about matters for the good of the town and of the state.
Speculation or debate as to why genius bestowed its fullest inspiration on Shakespeare is no less futile than speculation or debate as to why he was born into the world with a head on his shoulders instead of a block of stone.
Thucydides tells us of a long debate between the Athenian envoys and the Melian Council and professes to report the arguments used on each side.
In the debate on this subject we are told that several princes spoke; among them the two sons of Theseus, the legendary kings of Athens.
Surely it was very strange, he thought, that she, who was little more than a mere girl, should venture to debate with him his private affairs.
On the Friday before the debate Ferrers got a bad attack of influenza.
We can have a debateon the 'Value of Athletics,' and, heavens!
This last episode of thedebate seemed to bring it home to him more clearly.
But look here, there is a Stoics debate to-night and it's nearly roll-time.
There was nothing left for Pothering to say; the motion was then put before the House and the debate developed into a farce.
The debatewas supposed to open at twenty past the hour.
There had been a debatemore than two years back on "whether games should be compulsory.
Burgess was to open the debatefor the classics, and Christy was to second him.
The subject for the first debate of the term was "Classical and Modern Education," and Ferrers was going to speak for the modern side.
But they have taken part, and they still take part (not altogether inaudibly), in the general conversation and current debate of the world.
Political debate and business discussion are much more in his line than general conversation.
Even those talents which were drawn to the intellectual side of life were absorbed in the efforts which belong to the current discussions of affairs, the daily debate of the world, rather than to literature.
Unless there is a grievous error in the reported debate before us, the Lord Advocate of Scotland is not quite so conversant with statute law as might be expected from a gentleman of his undoubted eminence.
He cannot, therefore, take that prominence in a Scottish debate which his position would seem to require; and the duty which ought to be performed by a member of the cabinet is usually intrusted to a subordinate.
For the ground for debatelies in the difference in interpretation of the question and not in the facts themselves.
Many a stock question upon which amateur debating societies have exercised their talents would admit of no debate at all, if once the question were made definite.
Also, in respect of issues still open to debate and about which differences of opinion obtain, both sides have been given a hearing, so far as space would allow, that the student may weigh and decide the question for himself.
An important debate towards the end of Sir Robert Walpole's administration being mentioned, Dr.
Johnson's report of the debate in the Lords was published in the Magazine for the next July and August.
The following table shews the order in which Johnson's Debates were published:-- Gentleman's Debate or part Magazine.
The last Debate that Johnson wrote was for the 22nd day of February in that year.
In the report of a two days' debate in 1737, in which there were fourteen chief speakers, the substance of thirteen of the speeches was given in three (ib.
At length, in three of the spring numbers of 1743, the debate on Sandys's motion was reported.
Some difficulty is caused in following Boswell's statement by the length of time that often elapsed between the debate itself and its publication.
In the staleness of the debate there was some safeguard against a parliamentary prosecution.
Debate on the Humble Petition and Advice of the Rump Parliament to Cromwell in 1657, to assume the Title of King; abridged, methodized and digested.
The debatein the Lords was spread over five numbers of the Magazine in the following summer and autumn.
The debate itself was not published till the spring of 1744, when the reader is referred for this speech to the back number in which it had already been inserted.
Thus in the number for July 1743, we have the middle part of the debate in the Lords on Feb.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "debate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
