Englishmen and Scotchmen as Debaters "Scotchmen ought to bear in mind, that the j organ of eombativeness is developed to a |far greater extent in them that in the English head. An Englishman after a time, wearies of debate; —a Scotchman never.; At some of our most eminent, men of|etters havl often observed even in the best 'society if the Scottish metropolis, it is? not convk-sation which proceeds, as with uS, but dscussion. An Englishman seems to pensive when a question has been sufficiency discussed, sooner tnah his northern neighbor—when it is exhausted, or when elil, and not good, will be the issue of fuAher debate upon it; and we have known remarkable instances of Scotchmen, and tlAse of great intelligence and acumen, concliiing, from the silence of their southern opponents, that they had convinced them inVr'gument, when the others were only quidly marvelling at their desperate pertinacity.
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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 278, 3 July 1874, Page 3
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148Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 278, 3 July 1874, Page 3
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