 | Samuel Butler - 1864 - 426 lapas
...editions of 1674, 1684, 1689, 1694, 1700. And truly so perhaps he was, 'Tis many a pious Christian's case. 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 - 1864 - 518 lapas
...phrases, were after corrected He was in Logic a great critic,* el Profoundly skill'd in Analytic ; He could distinguish, and divide A hair 'twixt south and south-west side ; On «ither side he would dispute, Confute, change hands, and still confute ;1 TO He'd undertake to prove... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 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 woidd dispute, Confute, change hands, and still confute: He'd undertake to prove, by force Of argument,... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 252 lapas
...knaves do work with, called a fool 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... | |
 | 1865 - 980 lapas
...ench a person, though — " lie be in logic a great critic, Profoundly skilled in analytic; lie can distinguish and divide A hair 'twixt south and south-west side, — On either which he can dispute. Confute, change hands, and still confute. For be a rope of sand can twist, As tough as... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 lapas
...squeak. That Latin was no more difficile, Than to a blackbird 't is to whistle. Part i. Canto i. Line 51. He could distinguish, and divide A hair, 'twixt south and southwest side. Part i. Canto i. Line 67. For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope. Part... | |
 | George Oliver - 1867 - 412 lapas
...printing was invented ; and the subtleties of special pleading, or as Hudibras expresses it, a power to -distinguish and divide A hair 'twixt south and southwest side ; On either which he would dispute, Confute, change hands, and still confute," had not then obtained such complete possession... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 lapas
...ringlets her smooth ivory neck. " 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, Hud. 1, I. 65. If a man who turnips cries. Cries not when his "father dies, 'Tis a sign that... | |
 | Dawson Brothers (Montréal, Quebec), Son of Bon-Accord in North America - 1868 - 154 lapas
...original Hebrew or Greek. Besides this, 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 His people were thus profoundly impressed with... | |
 | James Riddell - 1868 - 152 lapas
...original Hebrew or Greek. Besides this, 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, His people were thus profoundly impressed with the extent of his erudition, and, like... | |
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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. 
