Disputes

Examples

• The rapidity with which he insisted on travelling, bred several disputes between him and the party whom he had hired to attend him as a guard. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• There is no need, therefore, to generate dialectical disputes about the final goal of politics. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• These fine differences about the constitution of the Deity interwove with politics and international disputes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The socialist movement calls him its prophet, and, while many socialists say he is superseded, no one disputes his historical importance. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• He brought a commission to supersede Mr. Hamilton, who, tired with the disputes his proprietary instructions subjected him to, had resigned. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• I had caught this by reading my father's books of disputes on religion. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Disputes arose as to which was invented first, and long controversies between scientific societies, most of which sided with the friends of Davy. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• I believe all moderate men will allow, that they have great force in all disputes concerning the rights of princes. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The endless disputes whether or not some fifty species of British brambles are good species will cease. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Under these circumstances, and with the many demands already made on him, he must decline entering into any disputes on the subject of evidence. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• By this means they indeed avoid disputes, but then it becomes difficult to know their minds, or what impression you make upon them. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• But I was willing to shew you that I had not forgot our old disputes. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• It is more agreeable to me to mention that no fresh disputes took place between Mr. Dawson and the Count. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• And to cut short all disputes, the very idea of extension is copyed from nothing but an impression, and consequently must perfectly agree to it. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The disputes between the proprietaries and the people of the province continued in full force, although a war was raging on the frontiers. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• My dear friend, said he, pleasantly, how can you advise my avoiding disputes? Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• A time comes when the Greek mind turns round, so to speak, from its disputes, and stares in one united dismay at the Macedonian. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Disputes are multiplied, as if every thing was uncertain; and these disputes are managed with the greatest warmth, as if every thing was certain. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• And they received this glorious legacy like ill-bred heirs; it meant no more to them than a fresh occasion for atrocious disputes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I kept out of those disputes pretty well, having wrote only one piece, which I send you enclosed. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The disputes between the proprietaries and the Assembly, which for a time had subsided, were again revived. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Arguments are too much like disputes. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• We shall see presently how later on all Christendom was torn by disputes about the Trinity. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In all the disputes which their sovereign has had with the pope, they have almost constantly taken part with the former. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Gartner, also, makes the rule equally universal; and he disputes the entire fertility of Kolreuter's ten cases. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The allies, after the fashion of Peace Congresses, frittered away precious time in more and more rapacious disputes; the Bourbons returned to France. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• So that controversies, wranglings, disputes, and positiveness, in false or dubious propositions, are evils unknown among the _Houyhnhnms_. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• He disputes with his majesty's great scholars. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• And in their further disputes she always returned to this point, Get me a situation--we hate each other, and I am ready to go. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• It's a place that has an ancient monopoly in suits about people's wills and people's marriages, and disputes among ships and boats. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.

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