| Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - 1840 - 644 lapas
...comic picture drawn by the caustic pen of But» ler, to satirise the logical pedant of his day: " 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 ; And run in debt by disputation, And pay with... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 lapas
...Splitters of hairs, like Hudibras, Who was in logic a great critic Profoundly skilled in analytic ; He could distinguish and divide A hair 'twixt south and south-west side. weaker faction is the firmer in conjunction ; and it is often seen, that a few that are stifl', do... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1841 - 844 lapas
...Not as a proselyte, but for claps. He was in logic a great critic, Profoundly skill'd in analytic : ubartas's poem. PROBABILITY OF THE CBLK8T1AL ORBS BKfNO INHABITBO. I not believe that the gre would dispute, Confute, change hands, and still confute : He'd undertake to prove, by force Of argument,... | |
| 1844 - 520 lapas
...altogether exempt. For instance " 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, hy force Of argument,... | |
| Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 868 lapas
...father of all. Clarke. Sermon l.vol. X. 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. Butler. Hudibrat, part i. can. 2. Tilings that move so swift, as not to affect the senses distinctly... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 290 lapas
...many that had not one word. * * * He was in logic a great critic, Profoundly skill'd 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,... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 386 lapas
...afford To many that had not one word. 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,... | |
| 1846 - 156 lapas
...right and what was wrong. 1 Whatever skeptic could inquire for, For ev'ry why he had a wher'fore. ~ He could distinguish and divide A hair 'twixt south and southwest side.' As the liquor progressed in its operation, thus would he boast of his wonderous knowledge, to the pleasant... | |
| Joseph Henry Green - 1847 - 80 lapas
...generalized Experience. It is not therefore the art of one " Profoundly skill'd in analytic ; Who can distinguish and divide A hair 'twixt south and south-west side; On either which who can dispute, Confute, change hands, and still confute :" BUTLER. Reasoning is the daily and... | |
| 1847 - 540 lapas
...Greek As naturally as pigs squeak. 6. 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. BUTLER'S JHudibras. 7. Learning, that cobweb of the brain, Profane, erroneous, and vain : A trade of... | |
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