Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking. From LearnThat.org. [George Eliot (1819 - 1880)]
Federico reveled in disputation, aiming to learn "some new thing each day.". From Wordnik.com. [Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro] Reference
STRANGER: And there is a private sort of controversy, which is cut up into questions and answers, and this is commonly called disputation?. From Wordnik.com. [The Sophist] Reference
Divinity; & so spent all the time at Meat in Latin disputation. From Wordnik.com. [The Letter-Bag of Lady Elizabeth Spencer-Stanhope — Volume 1] Reference
The idea of the disputation is the root-idea of idealistic philosophy. From Wordnik.com. [The Altar Fire] Reference
The disputation was a preparation for the disputations which formed part of what we should now term the degree examinations. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Medieval University] Reference
Why introduce the word "disputation," as if it characterised justly and entirely all didactic poetry?. From Wordnik.com. [Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2] Reference
But through these years of disputation and struggling. From Wordnik.com. [Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian] Reference
Latin the arguments he had used in his disputation with Stokesley. From Wordnik.com. [The Scottish Reformation Its Epochs, Episodes, Leaders, and Distinctive Characteristics] Reference
But to leave this technical, though not wholly unreal, disputation. From Wordnik.com. [Personality in Literature] Reference
Nothing had been accomplished, therefore, when the disputation ceased. From Wordnik.com. [The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa] Reference
The Imám As-Sháfa'í held a public disputation in Baghdád with Hafs, a. From Wordnik.com. [The Faith of Islam] Reference
Albeit in priuate disputation, he affirmed and defended the most of them. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)] Reference
It is reported that something in the nature of a disputation was now held. From Wordnik.com. [The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa] Reference
He was fond of useful disputation, possessed of a lively wit, and a strong memory. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
Andragatius, was no less rapid and surprising; his genius shone in every disputation. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
Before deciding about the new beliefs they wished to hear a disputation on the subject. From Wordnik.com. [The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa] Reference
Galle (Peder), professor in University of Upsala, 27; holds disputation with Petri, 168-169. From Wordnik.com. [The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa] Reference
Some time before the disputation, he had written to the north of Sweden to explain his views. From Wordnik.com. [The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa] Reference
Who aunswered, he had no commission to enter in disputation with hym, and so departed and left him. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)] Reference
The disputation, while strengthening the hands of Petri, caused a momentary shout of opposition to the king. From Wordnik.com. [The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa] Reference
Brask writes to, 224; holds another disputation with Petri, 232-236; wrangles at Diet of Vesterås, 252-253. From Wordnik.com. [The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa] Reference
He reprinted from the one remaining copy in his own possession the disputation between John Knox and Quentin. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author] Reference
London to Oxford to hold a disputation on those doctrines as to which their views were held to be heretical. From Wordnik.com. [England under the Tudors] Reference
It yielded no fruit, was serviceable only for disputation, and the end it proposed to itself was a mistaken one. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
A very long disputation followed, in which Plaise was desired to humble himself to the bishop; but this he refused. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
Marburg, he publicly set forth certain Conclusions or Theses for disputation, on the subject of Faith and Good Works. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)] Reference
The disputation between Galle and Olaus Petri two years before had been unsystematic, and had produced no permanent effect. From Wordnik.com. [The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa] Reference
One of his reasons may have been that this was the only way in which he could indulge his penchant for forensic disputation. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Dr. Ridley, as he passed Bocardo, looked up to see Dr. Cranmer, but the latter was then engaged in disputation with a friar. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
Gorgias, and Prodicus, were a class of philosophers or teachers who gave instruction in rhetoric and the art of disputation. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
At length the long line of their disputation maketh a point in this, that the one giveth the precept, and the other the example. From Wordnik.com. [English literary criticism] Reference
I regret that, in a work in which I have wished to avoid disputation, I have felt compelled to touch upon religious duties at all. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
His dialogue Against Fate was a disputation with a heathen philosopher, who maintained a destiny or overruling fate in all things. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
These three considerations clearly suggest the lifting of this whole operation out of the courts and the sphere of legal disputation. From Wordnik.com. [The Progressive Democracy of James M. Cox] Reference
Its particular shape, whether an examination, or a disputation, or the writing of a thesis, or anything else, need not now be discussed. From Wordnik.com. [The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1] Reference
The determination itself was a public disputation, after which the determiner might wear the bachelor's "cappa" and lecture on the Organon. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Medieval University] Reference
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