Do we say argue or quarell

argue 1326 occurrences

If its champions dare suppose two species, the book of Genesis shows them all mankind springing from one man, and the Gospel recounts to them the redemption wrought in behalf of all the descendants of Adam; if they argue from the curse pronounced against Canaan, the Old Testament presents to them the detailed enumeration of the Canaanites, a vast family, in which the whites figure as well as the blacks.

I fear I must argue this case of the inequality in individual potential, that inequality that does not yield to complex education or favourable environment, for it is fundamental.

But it is of little use to argue whether or not these negotiations were conducted ill or well, for they were not the real cause of the war.

It's too late to argue who's in the right and who's to blame; but I guess this affair had to happen.

It's the same way with this business; if I make a hit with him, or the idea strikes him all rightthen it's sweet wedding-bells to-morrow, and that's all, and don't you dare argue!

I've decided to marry my daughter to a clerk, and I'll have my way, and don't you dare argue; I don't give a hang for anybody.

If, again, as Fox and his followers at one time endeavored to argue, the Houses in 1789 had no right to the name or power of a Parliament, because the King had no part in their meetings, the convention that sat a century before (as, indeed, was admitted) was certainly far less entitled to that name or power, for it had not only never been called into existence by a King, but was assembled in direct defiance of the King.

There was no time to argue with points of law or order.

The great thing was to get Teddy Silk home, not to argue with him.

But please do not argue with me when I have made up my mind.

To argue with strong passion, with inveterate habit, with desperate circumstances, is to talk to the winds.

An Englishman is the unfittest person on earth to argue another Englishman into slavery.

By which assent it causes him even to approve of some points which are doubtful, on account of their resemblance to those things to which he has assented; as in the Aeschines of Socrates, Socrates shows that Aspasia used to argue with Xenophon's wife, and with Xenophon himself.

In the next place, we ought to argue that the fault which the accused person is imputing to another, is a lighter one than that which he himself committed; in the next place, we ought to employ some portion of a demurrer, and to show by whom, and through whose agency, and how, and when that matter ought to have been tried, or adjudged, or decided.

But when the advocate for the defence has dealt with the other arguments, if any arise out of other statements of the case, he will argue in this way with reference to the transference of the charge to other parties.

To argue a constitutional question by guessing at the "suppositions" that might have been made by the parties to it would find small favor in a court of law.

But I need not argue this.

Here, then, we have an instance, in which we cannot argue the sinlessness of a relation, from the fact of Apostolic injunctions on those standing in it.

Because it does not appear, that our Saviour and the Apostle Peter told certain centurions, who, for the sake of the argument, I will admit were slaveholders, that slaveholding is sinful, you argue, and most confidently too, that it is not sinful.

We argue that they became servants of their own accord.

To argue a constitutional question by guessing at the "suppositions" that might have been made by the parties to it, would find small favor in a court of law.

Let us argue on principles countenanced by reason, and becoming humanity.

How much more rational would it be, to argue that the natural enemy of the privileges of a freeman, is he who is robbed of them himself!

In conclusion, I argue the power of Congress to abolish slavery in the District, froth Art.

" "Why argue the matter?" said Dunwody dully.

quarell 1 occurrences

It fell out that we touched in the beginning of Aprill next ensuing at Cades in Andalozia, where the Spaniardes, according to their accustomed maner with all shippes of extraordinarie goodnes and burden, picked a quarell against the company, meaning to haue forfeited, or at least to haue arrested the sayd shippe.

Do we say   argue   or  quarell