| James Robert Boyd - 1852 - 364 lapas
...described : CHARACTER OF SIR HUDIBRAS. He was in logic a great critic, Profoundly skill'd in analytic : lie 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 run in debt by disputation, And pay... | |
| Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 lapas
...head. 'Byron. LOGIC. LONDON. 407 LOGIC. HE waa in logic a great critic, Profoundly skill'd in analytic; He could distinguish and divide A hair 'twixt south, and south-west side. Butler. Logicians use to clap a proposition, As justices do criminals m prison, And in as learn'd authentic... | |
| Samuel Butler, George Gilfillan - 1854 - 296 lapas
...Tis many a pious Christian's case. 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. ro He'd undertake to prove, by force Of argument,... | |
| Theodore Alors W. Buckley - 1854 - 332 lapas
...natures. gewrigtura 0f a SuWIe BUTLEB. 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... | |
| 1856 - 778 lapas
...his noble and learned antitype, " 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 side he would dispute, Confute, change hands, and still confute !" But to be serious once more, is... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 lapas
...HIS LOGIC. He was in logic a great critic, Profoundly r-kill'd in analytic: He could diKtiniruish, and divide A hair 'twixt south and south-west side; On either which he would dispute. Confute, chance hands, and still confute: He'd undertake to prove, by force Of argument,... | |
| John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 lapas
...squeak. That Latin was no more difficile, Than to a blackbird 'tis to whistle. Part i. Canto i. Line 67. He could distinguish, and divide A hair, 'twixt south and south-west side. Part i. Canto i. Line 81. For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope. Part... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1856 - 406 lapas
...cummin-seeds ;" or, as we now say, "splitters of straws," or " hairs." Butler says of Hudibras: " He could distinguish and divide A hair 'twixt south and southwest side." LI. OF FACTION. MANY have an opinion not wise, that for a prince to govern his estate, or for a... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 lapas
...blackbird 'tis to whistle. HIS LOGIC. 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,... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1857 - 374 lapas
...as a proselyte, but f@r claps. He was in logic a great critic, 65 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 : :o He'd undertake to prove, by force .Of... | |
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