| George Dyer - 1814 - 316 Seiten
...He was in logic a great critic, Profoundly ekill'd in analytic ; * Vid. Reform. Leg. Eccles. Lib. v. He could distinguish and divide A hair 'twixt south and southwest side j On either which he could dispute, Confute, change hands, and yet dispute. He'd undertake to prove... | |
| Robert Deverell - 1816 - 304 Seiten
...very much, 'Tis plain enough he was no such. He was in logic a great critic, €5 Profoundly skill'd in analytic; He could distinguish, and divide A hair...dispute, Confute, change hands, and still confute 70 For rhetoric, he could not ope 81 His mouth, but out there flew a trope ; mention of the brain,... | |
| Samuel Whelpley - 1817 - 626 Seiten
...crown all, a musician ; " He is in Logick a great critick, Profoundly skill'd in anulytick; He can distinguish, and divide A hair 'twixt south and south-west side ; On either which he will dispute, Confute, change bands, and still confute ; He'll undertake to prove, by force Of argument,... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1819 - 560 Seiten
...was, perhaps, Nor as a prosylete, but for claps. He was in logic a great critic, 65 Profoundly skilltl in analytic ; He could distinguish and divide A hair, 'twixt south and south-west side; [q ^iT' On either which he would dispute, ~ff Confute, change hands, and still confulr. 70 He'd undertake... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 416 Seiten
...proselyte, but for elaps.* He was in logie a great eritie, Profoundly skill'd in analytie ; He eould distinguish, and divide A hair, 'twixt south and south-west side; On either whieh he would dispute, Confute, ehange hands, and still eonfute : He'd undertake to prove, by foree... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1822 - 542 Seiten
...was, perhaps, Not as a proselyte, but for claps. He was in logic a great critic, 65 Profoundly skill'd in analytic ; He could distinguish and divide A hair,...dispute, Confute, change hands, and still confute. 70 -He'd undertake to prove, by force f *' Of argument, a man's no horse ; " t' He'd prove a buzzard... | |
| Abraham John Valpy - 1822 - 582 Seiten
...himself must pronounce highly poetical, as follows : " He was in logic a great critic, Profoundly skill'd in analytic; He could distinguish and divide A hair...south-west side: On either which he would dispute, Con/tiff, change hand*, aud still confute ; He'd undertake ' to prove,' by force Of argument, a nuuN... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1822 - 532 Seiten
...was in logic a great critic, 65 Profoundly skill'd in analytic ; / He could distinguish and divide if A hair, 'twixt south and south-west side ; On either...dispute, Confute, change hands, and still confute. 70 He'd undertake to prove, by force Of argument, a man's no horse ; He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl,... | |
| 1822 - 580 Seiten
...i, "He was in logic a great critic, He could distinguish and divide Profoundly skill'd in analytic; A hair 'twixt south and south-west side: On either which he would dispute, He'd undertake ' to prove,' by force Confute, change hands, and still confute; All this, without a... | |
| Paul Ponder (pseud.) - 1825 - 492 Seiten
...oblivion, and the peace of society be freed from this gratuitous pleader and demonstrator. On either hand he would dispute, Confute, change hands, and still...undertake to prove, by force Of argument, a man's no tiorse. Hudibras, canto I. Samuel Butler. The history of this inimitable bard, whose witty genius the... | |
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