 | Samuel Butler - 1835 - 340 lapas
...Not as a proselyte, but for claps. t|e 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,... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1835 - 456 lapas
...many a pious Christian's case.8 He was in Logic a great critic,i 65 Profoundly skill'd in Analytic ; He could distinguish, and divide A hair 'twixt south, and south-west side ; On either side he would dispute, Confute, change hands, and still confute ;8 70 He'd undertake to prove, by force... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1835 - 410 lapas
...many a pious Christian's case.9 He was in Logic a great critic,i 65 Profoundly skill'd in Analytic ; He could distinguish, and divide A hair 'twixt south, and south-west side ; On either side he would dispute, Confute, change hands, and still confute ;* 70 He'd undertake to prove, by force... | |
 | 1837 - 352 lapas
...Walter Raleigh. 639. Logician. — 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, Confute, change hands, and still confute. He'd undertake to prove, by force Of argument,... | |
 | 1837 - 528 lapas
...gives of his hero Sir Hudibras : " 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. He'd undertake to prove, by force Of argument,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1837 - 350 lapas
...: — CHARACTER OF SIR ECD1BR.1S. 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 run in debt by disputation, And pay with... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1837 - 342 lapas
...described : — CHARACTER OF SIR HUDIBRAS. 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 run in debt by disputation, And pay... | |
 | James Grant - 1839 - 270 lapas
...DR. WHATELY, ARCHBISHOP OF DUBLIN. He was in logic a great critic, Profoundly skilled in analytic. He could distinguish and divide A hair, 'twixt south and south-west side ; All which, by syllogism true, In mood and figure, he would do. — BUTLER. IN the preparation of... | |
 | Mask (pseud.) - 1839 - 260 lapas
...DR. WHATELY, ARCHBISHOP OF DUBLIN. He WMS in logic a great critic, Profoundly skilled in analytic. He could distinguish and divide A hair, 'twixt south and south,west side ; All which, by syllogism true, In mood and figure, he would do. — SUTLER. IN the preparation of... | |
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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. 
