80 Metaphors for arguments

The principal internal argument for this opinion is the teaching that the anticipation may begin from the public hour of first vespers, and these may be recited publicly according to present-day custom at 2 p.m. Therefore, this time, 2 o'clock p.m., is the beginning of the ecclesiastical day, and can be taken as the time for private anticipation of Matins and Lauds.

An argument from cause may be of itself conclusive evidence of the fact.

Argument is reaction, and drives us farther and farther apart.

The decisive argument was the untrustworthiness of the state courts.

"One argument which three persons have brought up to me is the superior condition of the blacks now, to what it would have been had their parents remained in Africa, and they been children of the soil.

The argument in case the belief should be doubted would be the higher synthetic idea: if two truths were possible, the duality of that possibility would itself be the one truth that would unite them.

Another argument against the legislative power in the clergy of England, is, p. viii.

Such an argument is a fallacy.

The imagination, the constructive quality, is the trowel, and argument is the sword.

His whole argument and his conclusions are an illustration of the folly of attempting to solve any problem in ethics without considering the relation to it of God's eternal laws, and of the eternal principles which are involved in the very conception of God.

This argument, the deliberate and studied work of men who well understood the subject, is a full exposition of the grounds on which the claim of the United States to the whole of the disputed territory rests.

He never could, in truth, quite shake himself free of his 'Spectre'; struggle as he would, he could not escape altogether from the employment of the ordinary forms of thought and speech; he is constantly arguing, as if argument were really a means of approaching the truth; he was subdued to what he worked in.

Therefore we may give as a definition, that a topic is the seat of an argument, and that an argument is a reason which causes men to believe a thing which would otherwise be doubtful.

Another argument, and a very strong one, in favour of studying some branch of Natural Science just now is thisthat without it you can hardly keep pace with the thought of the world around you.

Vanderveer's Closing Argument There are only two real issues in this case.

I ought to thank the Senator for introducing holy writ into this debate, and inform him his arguments are not the sentiments of Him, who, when on earth, went about doing good.

The arguments in favor of the enfranchisement of women are truths strong and unanswerable, and as old as the free institutions of our Government.

During this debate, the Duke took occasion to whisper the King, that his Majesty had a villain of a chancellor, to which the King merrily replied, oddsfish, York, what a fool you have of a chamberlain: by which it appears, his Majesty was convinced that Shaftsbury's arguments were the strongest.

The arguments which the greatest of our schoolmen could not refute were two: the blood in men's veins, and the milk in women's breasts.

But this argument, as I have already shown, is valueless.

The argument, too, that man was the breadwinner and the protector of the home against all outside antagonistic influences, which in the past he has generally been, furnished another reason why, when any class attained to fresh social privileges, it was the boy and the man of that class, rather than the woman and the girl, who benefited by them first.

His famous argument, the joy of many an honest breast, is a tissue of fallacies which might be given for exposure to beginners in logic, as an elementary exercise.

Argument was not his strong point, and, like most men who cannot argue, he was almost impervious to the arguments of others.

This was a dashing, hard-fighting general of division, whose element was close quarters and whose favorite argument was the cold steel.

JOHNSON. 'Nay, Sir, argument is argument.

80 Metaphors for  arguments