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"Did this fish, then, actually belong to the Spanish crown?" asked Bernis. "Was it already paid for, and legally yours?" "It was not paid for, but was ordered, and my servant had gone home for the money." "As long as it was not paid for, no one could have any claim upon it." "You are, then, disposed to dispute the fish with me?" cried the duke.
It is the obvious possibility of such dispute that makes it incumbent upon Great Britain to prepare herself in case of disagreement to enter into a discussion with Germany upon equal terms.
"You appear always to be very ready for a quarrel, Mr Dale," said the Duke, with a glance at Carford. "Pray, what's the dispute?" "I'll tell your Grace the whole matter," said I readily enough, for I had nothing to blame myself with. "No, I won't have it told," cried M. de Fontelles. "It's my pleasure to hear it," said the Duke coldly. "Well, sir, it was thus," said I, with a candid air.
Putney, the whole place would have to be sold before it could be divided, and I couldn't seem to let it. That was what we disputed about. Yes! We had a dispute; but it's all right now, or it will be, when we get the company to say they will stop the lawsuit against father, if he will give up the money he's got, and we will give up the place. Mr.
He shot out his hands, gripped the top and went up. And still no one to dispute his right to do as he pleased. He sat for a moment atop the wall, looking about him curiously. He marked that at each of the corners of the enclosure to be seen from where he sat, was a little square tower rising a dozen feet higher than the wall. In each tower a lamp burned.
This proved a very difficult matter to manage, and occupied their time for the rest of the day. Three or four would covet the same article; and long and noisy discussions would take place before the dispute could be settled to their mutual satisfaction.
It was not easy to find a clear issue for the dispute, and still less by a logical process to decide it in favour of Anglicanism. This difficulty, however, had no tendency whatever to harass or perplex me: it was a matter which bore not on convictions, but on proofs.
"Honest man," said the calender, "do not put yourself in a passion; we should be sorry to give you the least occasion; on the contrary, we are ready to receive your commands." Upon which, to put an end to the dispute, the ladies interposed, and pacified them. When the calenders were seated, the ladies served them with meat; and Safie, being highly pleased with them, did not let them want for wine.
But that Knowledge, as I define it, is a good thing, I have no doubt whatever." "Neither have I," I replied; "but good, as it seems to me, mainly as a means, in so far as it enables us to master Nature." "Well," he said, "and what greater Good could there be?" "I don't dispute the greatness of such a Good.
What daring thought, what gigantic speculation, what democracy of wisdom and genius, have sprung up amongst the despotisms of Germany! The proper object of statesmen should be to give every facility to the people to develop themselves, and every facility to philosophy to dispute and discuss as to the ultimate objects to be obtained.
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