 | John Matthews Manly - 1926 - 928 lapas
...He was in logic a great critic, Profoundly skill'd in analytic : 1 an old play, by an unknown author r airy garments flew, Thin glittering textures of the filmy dew, Dipt in the richest tincture would dispute, Confute, change hands, and still confute. 70 He'd undertake to prove, by force Of argument,... | |
 | 1926 - 176 lapas
...Accomplishments (From "Hudibras," 1663) He was in logic a great critic, Profoundly skilled in analytic, He could distinguish and divide A hair 'twixt south and south-west side; On either which he would dispute, Compute, change hands, and still compute. He'd undertake to prove by force Of argument... | |
 | Percy Hazen Houston - 1926 - 548 lapas
...illustrate Butler's satiric method : ^. He was in logic a great critic, Profoundly skill'd in analytic: He could distinguish, and divide A hair 'twixt south and south-west side; On either which he would dispute, Confute, change hands, and still confute. He'd undertake to prove, by force Of argument,... | |
 | Francis Meehan - 1928 - 764 lapas
...Heaven by making earth a Hell. Many a quip of Butler's is susceptible of a present-day application : He could distinguish and divide A hair 'twixt south and south-west side ; On either which he would dispute, Confute, change hands, and still confute. For all a rhetorician's rules Teach nothing... | |
 | United States. Congress House - 1931 - 84 lapas
...analytical mind, and upon any highly important and controversial question, as it appeared to me — He could distinguish and divide A hair 'twixt south and southwest side. I regarded him as one of the ablest lawyers of the American Congress. He certainly was one of the strongest... | |
 | 1856 - 1026 lapas
...by Butler in Hudibras : " He was in logic a great critic, Profoundly skilled in analytic ! He would distinguish and divide A hair, 'twixt south and south-west side ; On Either which he would dispute, Confute, change hands, and still confute. He 'd undertake to prove by force Of argument,... | |
 | Tucker Brooke, Matthias A. Shaaber - 1989 - 490 lapas
...opponent who offers. The knight was, we are told, in Logic a great critic, Profoundly skill'd in Analytic; He could distinguish, and divide A hair 'twixt south and south-west side; On either which he would dispute, Confute, change hands, and still confute; He'd undertake to prove by force Of argument... | |
 | Peter James Stanlis - 1958 - 292 lapas
...Tub and Gulliver's Travels, Book III: He was in logic a great critic, Profoundly skilled in analytic; He could distinguish and divide A hair 'twixt south and southwest side; On either which he would dispute, Confute, change hands, and still confute. (Hudibras, The Argument, lines 65-70) In mathematics... | |
 | Arthur Asa Berger - 2011 - 224 lapas
...philosophic mode he is described as follows: He was in Logic a great critic, Profoundly skill'd in Analytic. He could distinguish, and divide A hair "twixt south and south-west side; On either which he would dispute, Confute, change hands, and still confute. He 'd undertake to prove, by force Of argument,... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 lapas
...Not as a proselyte, but for claps. He was in logic a great critic, Profoundly skill'd in analytic; He could distinguish, and divide A hair 'twixt south and south-west side; On either which he would dispute. Confute, change hands, and still confute. 70 He'd undertake to prove by force Of argument... | |
| |
He'd undertake to prove, by force Of argument, a man's no horse; He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl, And that a lord may be an owl, A calf an alderman, a goose a justice, And rooks committee-men and trustees. 
