| James Robert Boyd - 1844 - 372 Seiten
...place, described : CHARACTER OP SIR HUDIBRAS. • He was in logic a great critic, Profoundly skill'd in analytic : ' He could distinguish, and divide A...southwest side ; On either which he would dispute, '220 BIUT1SI1 POETS. He'd ran in debt by disputation, And pay with ratiocination : All this by syllogism... | |
| Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 868 Seiten
...God the 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 Seiten
...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...undertake to prove, by force Of argument, a man's no horje ; He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl, And that a lord may be an owl ; A calf an alderman, a goose... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 386 Seiten
...either would 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...dispute, Confute, change hands, and still confute. He 'd undertake to prove, by force Of argument, a man 's no horse ; He 'd prove a buzzard is no fowl,... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1846 - 324 Seiten
...as a proselyte, but for claps. He was in logic a great crilick, 65 Profoundly skill'd in analytick ; He could distinguish and divide A hair 'twixt south...south-west side ; On either which he would dispute, Confnte, change hands, and .still confute. 70 He'd undertake to prove, by force Of argument, a man's... | |
| 1846 - 156 Seiten
...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... | |
| 1847 - 526 Seiten
...could speak 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 Hudibras. 7. Learning, that cobweb of the brain, Profane, erroneous, and vain: A trade of... | |
| 1847 - 540 Seiten
...could speak 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... | |
| Joseph Henry Green - 1847 - 80 Seiten
...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... | |
| Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 492 Seiten
...ENDISG SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1853. [Price One Penny. AEGUMENTS AND PUEPOSES OF THE SUNDAYSABBATAEIANS. " He was in logic a great critic, Profoundly skilled...dispute, Confute, change hands, and still confute." HudHrras. PBOTESTANTS and Protestant Dissenters, if they wish to be esteemed deserving of the name... | |
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