Jonson's dialectical skill was for a long period undisputed, and for gossip to credit Shakespeare with victory in such conflict was to pay his memory even more enviable honour than Jonson paid it in his own obiter dicta.
To the same category of oral tradition belongs the further piece which Fuller enshrined in his slender biography with regard to Shakespeare's alert skirmishes with Ben Jonson in dialectical battle.
But most of these become misleading by reason of their lack of scope; forms practically universal in the nation are discussed as dialectical variations.
Here the national speech is powerfully influenced by Southern dialectical variations, which in turn probably derive partly from French example and partly from the linguistic limitations of the negro.
To Shakespeare, Rolland owes his impetus, his ardor, and in part his dialectical power.
All his dramas, therefore, are problem plays, wherein the characters are but the expression of theses and antitheses in dialectical struggle.
III I believe that there is some advantage in stating in this somewhat crabbed and dialectical fashion, a problem which most of us usually approach through much more direct and pathetic experience.
They illustrate a certain dialectical process which belongs to all human life and which plays its part in the whole history of religion.
There was nothing more to be discovered, and therefore scientists took a delight in logical and dialectical speculations which to a man of our day seem senseless and childish.
His death was the application of a universal proposition to an individual case, and because no one could accuse Socrates of a dialectical error, the conclusion, his death, had to take place.
What I say is, he that is emancipated never indulges in that intellectual gladiatorship which is implied by a dialectical disputation for the sake of victory.
Again, in the Bahima language the word for "nine" used to be mwenda, a word which occurs with the same meaning but dialectical variations in the languages of other tribes of central and eastern Africa.
Dialectical variation would finally spring up, and thus complete their growth into tribes.
The last tribe separated first, and the Otawas last, as is shown by the relative amount of dialectical variation, that of the former being greatest.
The tribes were as numerous as the dialects, for separation did not become complete until dialectical variation had commenced.
By usingdialectical tricks of this kind a writer betrays that he is secretly conscious of being in the wrong.
For by showing a man quite quietly that he is wrong, and that what he says and thinks is incorrect--a process which occurs in every dialectical victory--you embitter him more than if you used some rude or insulting expression.
I must confess the fact of that escape rather prejudiced me in favour of Katie, though I would rather she had evaporated into thin air, and left the dialectical whiskers intact.
I was, I confess, greatly pleased when, in 1869, the Dialectical Society took up this matter, because I felt they were just the people to look into it dispassionately.
With those cautiously guarded words I venture to think that any one who even reads the body of evidence contained in the Dialectical Society's report will be able to coincide.
His dialectical mind discovered ingenious justifications for what the astrologers claimed.
The prudence of the man of action and the administrator balanced his outbursts of dialectical subtility, often carried too far.
He put into this generally thankless business a wonderful vigour and dialectical subtlety.
With his extraordinary dialectical subtilty, he soon became very good at it himself--much better even than his masters.
Certain instructive misunderstandings of the most obvious sort occur when the half-educated drop their dialect, or thoroughly educated people alter the dialectical expressions and try to translate them into high German.
There may be hundreds of errors in the dialectical procedure of a man, while there is much more certainty in the instinctive conception and the direct reproduction of a woman.
I have myself taken down from the lips of Carolina mountaineers some eight hundred dialectical or obsolete words, to say nothing of the much greater number of standard English terms that they command.
It has been my habit to jot down, on the spot, every dialectical word or variant or idiom that I hear, along with the phrase or sentence in which it occurred; for I never trust memory in such matters.
We should not however conclude this chapter without adverting to the dialectical method of Ramus, whom we left at the middle of the century, struggling against all the arms of orthodox logic in the university of Paris.
It cannot be required of me to give an account of books so totally forgotten, and so uninteresting in their subjects as these dialectical treatises on either side.
It is possible that raham was originally only a dialectical form of ram.
Curious developments of the Hegelian conception are to be found in the dialectical treatment of beauty in its relation to the ugly, the sublime, &c.
Rispetti, he suggests, were first produced in Sicily, whence they traveled through Central Italy, receiving dialectical transmutation in Tuscany, and there also attaining to the perfection of their structure.
If this was true of the refined type of Tuscan used by a great master, it was no less true of dialectical compositions selected for the express purpose of exhibiting their rudeness.
All we know for certain is that beneath apparent dialectical divergences the vulgar poetry of the Italians presents unmistakable signs of identity.
With French poems before them, the popular rhapsodes introduced dialectical phrases, substituted words, and, where this was possible, modified the style in favor of the dialect they wished to use.
Whatever view may be adopted concerning the formation of the lingua illustre, or polished Italian, from the dialectical elements already employed in local kinds of poetry, there is no disputing the importance of the Sicilian epoch.
Both of these compositions were written under Provencal influence, though the former at least is strictly dialectical and popular.
Sicilian, it may be said in passing, presents close dialectical resemblance to Tuscan.
It exhausted all the subjects which dialectical subtlety ever raised.
The latter more particularly characterized his logic, which he presented in sixteen forms, the whole evincing much ingenuity and skill in construction, and presenting at the same time a useful dialectical exercise.
So severely dialectical was he that he seemed to be a hair-splitter.
So began the battle of the schools with all its more than military strategy and tactics, and in the end it was a drawn battle, in spite of its marvels of intellectual heroism and dialectical sublety.
As an intellectualist he had much to do with the subsequent abandonment of Plato in favour of Aristotle that was a mark of pure scholasticism, while the brilliancy of his dialectical method became a model for future generations.
Dialectical materialism, in the abstract excellent as a technique, would scarcely make Sun understandable to most Americans of the present day.
Sun Yat-sen did not devise any elaborate scheme of dialectical materialism or economic determinism to bolster his belief in the irreversibility of the flow to democracy.
If the view of democracy just expressed be considered an exposition of the fundamental necessity of democracy, the third argument may be termed the dialectical or historical championship of democracy.
Sun speaks of an interpretation of history antagonistic to dialectical materialism--the interpretation of history by jen.
Nothing could be further from dialectical materialism than the socio-ethical interpretation that Sun Yat-sen developed from the Confucian theories.
He was an acute as well as a laborious antiquary, but his ignorance of German prevented his ranking high as a philologist, although he paid much attention to the earlydialectical forms of French and English.
Huss defended himself gallantly, with wonderful quickness of thought and dialectical skill, but nothing could be more unlike the free debate which he had deluded himself into anticipating when he left Prague.
His mind is of large grasp; nor is he deficient in dialectical skill.
We find among their writings incomparable specimens both of dialectical and rhetorical art.
The resulting habit of mind is a bias for substituting dialectical distinctions and decisions de jure in the place of explanations de facto.
In the Marxian scheme of dialectical evolution the development which is in this way held to be controlled by the material exigencies must, it is held, proceed by the method of the class struggle.
In metaphysical insight and dialectical versatility many orientals, as well as the Schoolmen of the Middle Ages, easily surpass the highest reaches of the New Thought and the Higher Criticism.
This, of course, amounts to saying in other words that the law of cause and effect was given the first place, as contrasted with dialectical consistency and authentic tradition.
These dicta are, of course, older than modern science, but it is only in the early days of modern science that they come to rule the field with an unquestioned sway and to push the higher grounds of dialectical validity to one side.
In the materialistic conception of history this dialectical movement becomes the class struggle of the Marxian system.
Ronayne, fount of wisdom and light, whatever may the Dialectical Society be?
And I've been--no, I've been bidden to the Dialectical Society.
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