He is training to dispute with Miss LOUISA MOORE, the proud title of the 'Champion Weepist.' "Send me the Ninth, and the flower of Opera Bouffeaye, even the great SCHNEIDERshall be thine.

If boys consider they are not justly dealt with, they have me to appeal to; but the idea that disputes between the two should be settled by practical joking is simply outrageous.

" "I see," said I, "that doctors differ and dispute about their own fancies every where.

On asking an explanation of my friend, he informed me that these contests were favourite modes of settling private disputes in Morosofia: that the prize-fighters I saw, hired themselves to any one who conceived himself injured in person, character, or property.

" "It was forbidden in old time to dispute of Chymera, because it was a fiction: we hope in our times none will apply pastimes, because they are fancies: for there liveth none under the sun that knows what to make of the man in the moon.

When the people had somewhat recovered from their emotion, they fell to disputing as to the cause of the last marvel.

It is a matter of dispute among liturgists whether Prime and Compline were added to the Roman secular office through the influence of the Benedictines (Baudot, The Roman Breviary, pp. 19-26).

As a general rule two good reasons may be advanced for disputes on the part of players.

Rivals were formerly dwellersthat is, neighboring dwellerson the bank of a stream; disputes over water-rights gave the word its present meaning.

Some even proceeded so far as to propose, in case the admiral should refuse to acquiesce in their proposals, that they might make a short end of all disputes by throwing him overboard; after which they could give out that he had fallen over while making his observations, and no one would ever think of inquiring into the truth.

" "You did do a great thing, my friend," said Spalding, "you solved a mystery about which men, wise in the learning of the books, had perhaps been disputing for centuries.

" Henshaw looked as though he would have liked to bring the dispute to the issue of a physical encounter, had but the coward in him dared.

There might be a dispute at the meeting; the directors' report would not be satisfactory.

What arguments these gentlemen require, it is not easy to conjecture; or how those who disapprove their measures, may with any hope of success dispute against them.

Two or three days after my arrival I met with the poet Homer, and both of us being quite at leisure, asked him several questions, and amongst the rest where he was born, that, as I informed him, having been long a matter of dispute amongst us.

"The two first methods produce, more frequently, a temporary suspension of disputes than a final termination.

He had come over to England as agent for Pennsylvania, and his examination, as preserved in the "Parliamentary History," may be taken as a complete statement of the matter in dispute from the American point of view, and of the justification which the Colonists conceived themselves to have for refusing to submit to pay such a tax as had now been imposed upon them.

I am here to congratulate those who have restrained themselves from going to the President and bringing the dispute before him.

[E] [Footnote E: Hanotaux, "Fashoda et le partage de l'Afrique."] The same statesman criticized, with ill-concealed hatred, the German policy: "It will be for history to decide what has been the leading thought of Germany and her Government during the complicated disputes under which the partition of Africa and the last phase of French colonial policy were ended.

Men were formerly disputed out of their Doubts, reconciled to Truth by Force of Reason, and won over to Opinions by the Candour, Sense and Ingenuity of those who had the Right on their Side; but this Method of Conviction operated too slowly.

The necessity to a maritime state of a powerful navy, including abundant resources for manning it, is now no more disputed than the law of gravitation.

The identity of the author was a favorite matter for dispute during many years.]

But what that merit is, we fear will be disputed until the arrival of that ever-receding Shakespearian millenium when the editors shall no longer rage or the commentators imagine a vain thing.

318; attacked by him, v. 15, n. 1: see BURKE; burlesque, turns a dispute into, iv. 80, n. 4; business, love of, Clarendon Press, ii. 441; Dr. Taylor's law suit, iii. 44, n. 3; 51, n. 3; Thrale's brewery, iv. 85, n. 2; calculation, fondness for, i. 72; ii. 288-9, 344; iii. 207; error in, ib.

Jim Dawson had always been able to settle his disputes without difficulty or delay.