There were disputations on philosophical questions such as how many angels could sit on a pin's point, and at some schools, orations.
There were no more disputations to qualify for degrees.
During an interval of official business he delivered two public orations, to give the unlettered conquerors of his country a taste of the disputations that flourished in the Attic schools.
He turns from the discussion of theories, and examines his subject by the daylight of institutions, believing that laws depend much on the condition of society, and little on notions and disputationsunsupported by reality.
Freville, and now understood how it was that I had got the better of him in our farming disputations on the way hither.
We have not joined the great army of truth to waste our time in vain disputations over metaphysical subtleties.
Of the cross in baptism, see my "Disputations of Church Government," of Ceremonies, written long ago.
He insisted upon this in his writings and disputations before ever he began his controversy on Indulgences.
In these Disputations propositions drawn up either by himself or by his colleagues, were defended by his pupils under his own direction.
Some important disputations which the youthful University Professor held on theses and “paradoxa” formulated by himself prove how his teaching was taking ever deeper root at Wittenberg and elsewhere.
He gave the title Initium negocii evangelici to a collection of the theses debated at these Disputations which appeared in print at Wittenberg in 1538.
The three more important Disputations considered above were designated by Luther himself as the “beginning of the evangelical business.
The three great Disputations described by Luther as “Initium negocii evangelici.
The disputations of the mediaeval universities seem to have found their germ in these animated discussions on trivial subjects, such as are described in chapters of Gellius to which the reader has already been referred.
One of the seminaries for teaching logic, metaphysics, and theology, which were formed in the Middle Ages, and which were characterized by academical disputations and subtilties of reasoning.
I often confuted his notions: often in our disputations I pushed a good argument so home, that all his subtilty was not able to elude its force.
From the disputations which he heard in the Sorbonne he brought back nothing but the habit of scoffing at doctors of theology, or as he always ironically calls them by their title of honour: Magistri nostri.
Wood says, "his plain preaching was esteemed good; his solid disputations were accounted better; but his pious life was reckoned best of all.
Such public disputations were then very common at the universities and among theologians, and they were meant to serve as means not only of exercising learned thought, but of elucidating the truth.
In the five chapels the regents of the five faculties assembled for the Act at which disputations were held and degrees given.
University, gave lectures and sat, at stated times, to determine in the disputations that preceded, as examinations do now, the B.
In Salamanca, not only were there frequent disputations but, as the leading school of theology, questions were frequently submitted to it by the Suprema on which conferences and congregations were held, leading to interminable wrangles.
So he that would judge of disputations cannot be just, if he either seeks the bays for himself, or is himself antagonist to either of the antagonists.
Such indeed he frequently is; but in his disputations against others he takes not the least care of speaking things contrary and dissonant to himself.
That it is especially with the Platonists that we must carry on our disputations on matters of theology, their opinions being preferable to those of all other philosophers.
For six hundred years the aspiring bachelor and master obtained their status by public disputations in the schools.
From then dates the abolition of the old quaint ceremonies and disputations connected with this faculty.
Mary's--was used by the university for its assemblies in the xiii century and was the scene of all great civic functions; disputations were held in it on Elizabeth's visit in 1564.
The story that abbot Joffred of Crowland sent four Orleans monks full of new learning to his Cambridge manor of Cottenham[19] early in the xii century, who held disputations in a large barn, has been shown to be entirely legendary.
These disputationsdegenerated in Restoration times to buffoonery, but the principle of examination made steady progress,[267] and there were probably no tripos speeches after the Senate House was built.
These disputations were all of them carried on in the Latin language, which she spoke with the utmost ease, purity, and copious elegance.
With the Grecians then it was, that these disputations of Paul were held.
He was not a theologian, or a Talmudical scholar, and was not fitted for carrying on learned disputations with highly educated Jews.
However, the teacher and his clever, inquisitive, pupil soon had disputations together.
Hence we read of frequent disputations which were held by the Jewish and Gentile missionaries with the most learned rabbis, often in the presence of bishops, noblemen, and princes.
Sutcliffe, the Dean of Exeter, laid the foundations of a college for controversies or disputations at Chelsea, on the banks of the quiet Thames.
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