Two able disputants, like those in religion, might maintain sixty arguments on the subject, and like them, leave the matter where they found it.
"An History of Birmingham (1783)"
William Hutton
If we attend to twenty disputants, not one of them will quote a text which militates against his sentiments.
"An History of Birmingham (1783)"
William Hutton
It is, perhaps, not too much to say that he never surpassed in drawing, expression, and character, these two admirable figures; full of contempt for each other, the emotion is expressed naturally, and with due regard to the peculiarities, widely varying, of each of the disputants.
"John Leech, His Life and Work. Vol. 1"
William Powell Frith