 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, 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,...  The Southern Review - Page 1541871Full view - About this book
 | George Dyer - 1814 - 394 pages
...Leg. Eccks. Lib. v. * jJLSceticwn, Lib. v. Cap. 10. .',,(. \ ,-\ '.\f,- i\^,u y., «.,v, \,.,<v TSE. He could distinguish and divide A hair 'twixt south and southwest side; On either which he could dispute, Confute, change hands, and yet dispute. He'd undertake to prove by force Of argument,... | |
 | George Dyer - 1814 - 316 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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, Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 456 pages
...was, perhaps, Not as a proselyte, but for claps.* He was in logic a great critic, Profoundly skill'd in analytic ; He could distinguish, and divide A hair,...hands, and still confute : He'd undertake to prove, by force Of argument, a man's no horse j He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl, And that a lord may be an... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 412 pages
...was, perhaps, Not as a proselyte, but for claps.* He was in logic a gveat critic, Profoundly skill'd in analytic ; He could distinguish, and divide A hair,...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, And that a lord may be an... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1819 - 560 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 314 pages
...was, perhaps, Not as a proselyte, but for claps 8. He was in logic a great critic, Profoundly skilfd in analytic ; He could distinguish, and divide A hair,...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, And that a lord may be an... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1822 - 584 pages
...highly poetical, as follows : " He was in logic a great critic, ', Profoundly skitl'd in analytic; lie could distinguish and divide A hair 'twixt south and...hands, and still confute ; He'd undertake ' to prove,' by force Of argument, a man's no horse. All this, without a gloss or comment, He could unriddle in... | |
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