Disputatious and artful natures of Arthur and William Lee, 265.
Franklin might well have said of him what he said of his brother, William Lee, that he was not only a disputatious but a very artful man.
Conflicting interpretations existed between them of the treaty of Washington, which gave rise to a tedious and disputatious correspondence.
Therefore men did hasten to set down some principles about which the variety of theirdisputatious might turn.
In like manner, the use of confutation in the delivery of sciences ought to be very sparing; and to serve to remove strong preoccupations and prejudgments, and not to minister and excite disputatious and doubts.
Many of them relate to obsolete questions and issues, monumental of controversies long dead, and of disputatiousdoctors otherwise forgotten.
In those early days, and for generations, disputatious contention, especially between the Baptists and Methodists, was frequent.
While dreaded in disputatious combat, he was respected for his uniform fairness.
The disputatious ardor of the schoolman was gratified.
We have not to deal with men like Arius or Priscillian, or Nestorius or Eutyches, scholars and prelates who filled the Church with the disputatious wrangles of their learning.
But most she fears the controversial pen, The holy strife ofdisputatious men; Who the bless'd Gospel's peaceful page explore, Only to fight against its precepts more.
Here, fatigued by the effort of excessive talking, disputatious Thomas waved one hand languidly, laid his head back on the sofa- pillow, and calmly closed his eyes.
My legal bachelor starts another topic, and finds his faculty for impromptu definition exercised by the three Miss Cruttwells, always in the same briskly-disputatious manner.
If he could only be present in the spirit, after leaving the abode of the Miss Cruttwells in the body, his admiration of my three disputatious spinsters would, I think, be greatly increased.
You have already had a sentimental sample, gentlemen, and a disputatious sample.
Will nobody offer for this disputatious sample--not even for the dog-fancying Miss Charlotte, with the two fat puppies thrown in?
They could be seriously disputatious to the point of quarrelling; they could be light-heartedly disputatious to the bantering point, where either was uncertain which side of the argument he had originally espoused.
A character where the first person asserted itself so imperiously could not but be a disputatious one.
On hearing such things as these, those of whom we are speaking grow furious;--indeed the chatter of the disputatious man usually verges closely on anger.
His Metaphysics, Physics, Ethics, and the rest, supplied abundant material upon which his principles of logic might be brought to bear by a disputatious generation.
Fleeming and I were teacher and taught as to the principles, disputatious rivals in the practice, of dramatic writing.
A hard and disputatious element has been commented on by strangers: it would not touch Fleeming, who was himself regarded, even in this metropolis of disputation, as a thorny table-mate.
The breadth and vigor of the early days were lost, the pragmatical and disputatious element gaining more and more ground.
But for Bradford, and Morton, and Johnson, and other equally worthy and honored names, this disputatious tendency was a surface matter, and the deeper traits were of an order that make petty peculiarities forgotten.
The true principle of the religion has been secreted in both, and consisted in neither: it has lain unnoticed in the midst, in the silent chamber of the heart, around which the clamor of the disputatious intellect whirls without entrance.
He says that the Sophist is a disputatiousman who challenges every one for speaking falsehood.
Plato is here puzzled to make out a clear line of distinction between the Elenchus of Sokrates, and the disputatious arguments of those Sophists whom he calls Eristic--name deserved quite as much by Sokrates as by any of them.
From a very early age he showed a passionate fondness for reading, and much ingenuity in argument, but, as he acknowledges, had at first contracted a disputatious and wrangling turn of conversation.
The quarrel about the Trinity existed long before Arius took part in it, in the disputatious town of Alexandria, where it had been beyond the power of Euclid to make men think calmly and justly.
This is the earliest of his works in which the dialogue is of a disputatious character.
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