The one Parliament that really does rule England is a secret Parliament; the debates of which must not be publishedthe Cabinet.

"A debate is a debate, you know, and you must make up opinions for your own side, whether you think them or not.

Sir Robert WALPOLE then said:Sir, it has been already admitted, that the motion can only be objected to as superfluous, and, therefore, all farther debate is mere waste of time, without any prospect of advantage; nor is any thing now necessary, but to review the motion, and correct such expressions as may be thought inaccurate or improper.

The honourable gentlemen descendedor, as they thought, ascendedto the most vehement invective, and such was at times the torrent of personal abuse which parties heaped on one another, while good-natured John Bull looked on and smiled at his rulers, that, as in the United States of to-day, a debate was often the prelude to a duel.

Now the debate between the sexes is a perennial.

As for that pledge of the New Citizenship, the Education Bill, the debate on the second reading has been such a long eulogy of its author that Mr. Fisher would be well advised to offer a propitiatory sacrifice to Nemesis.

The debate, so celebrated, between the great Carolinian Hayne and our own Webster was the feature of the entertainment.

It would be an enormous advantage for the political education of candidates and for the education of voters if such debates could become the routine in Congressional and Presidential campaigns.

The debate was the first important discussion in Parliament on the new principle of Free Trade.

THE STORY OF THE SCABBARD IX THE STORY OF THE NAVARRESE X THE STORY OF THE FOX-BRUSH THE EPILOGUE Precautional Imprimis, as concerns the authenticity of these tales perhaps the less debate may be the higher wisdom, if only because this Nicolas de Caen, by common report, was never a Gradgrindian.

Such was the goodness of Johnson's heart, that he then declared, that "those debates were the only parts of his writings which gave him any compunction: but that, at the time he wrote them, he had no conception that he was imposing upon the world, though they were, frequently, written from very slender materials, and often from none at all, the mere coinage of his own imagination."