 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
 | Mask (pseud.) - 1839 - 260 pages
...nothing of him in his private capacity, and no doubt it is so. DR. WHATELY, ARCHBISHOP OF DUBLIN. He WMS in logic a great critic, Profoundly skilled in analytic....and divide A hair, 'twixt south and south,west side ; All which, by syllogism true, In mood and figure, he would do. — SUTLER. IN the preparation of... | |
 | Mask (pseud.) - 1839 - 256 pages
...know nothing of him hi his private capacity, and no doubt it is so. DR. WHATELY, ARCHBISHOP OF DUBLIN. He was in logic a great critic, Profoundly skilled...analytic. He could distinguish and divide A hair, 'hvixt south and south•west side ; All which, by syllogism true, In mood and figure, he would do.—BUTLER.... | |
 | 1840 - 372 pages
...either would afford To many that had not one word. He was in logic a great critic, Profoundly skiU'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... | |
 | Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - 1840 - 644 pages
...comic picture drawn by the caustic pen of But» ler, to satirise the logical pedant of his day: — " He could distinguish and divide, A hair 'twixt south...would dispute, Confute, change hands and still confute ; And run in debt by disputation, And pay with raciocination. All this, by Syllogism true, In mood... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pages
...commonly giveth best way. The lower and i Studies become habits. * Splitters of hairs, like Hudibras, Who was in logic a great critic Profoundly skilled in...and divide A hair 'twixt south and south-west side. weaker faction is the firmer in conjunction ; and it is often seen, that a few that are stifl', do... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1841 - 844 pages
...he 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 ; He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl, And that a lord may be an... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 pages
...would afford To many, that had riot one word. * * He was in logic a great critic, Profoundly skill'd J0r T3 ΫP ~ ( A TbL n| a y ) 48 J ... -( 7 9 H { Tc wB N R ؊. 6@ xR ϵ0 by force Of argument a man's no horse ; He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl, And that a lord may be an... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - 1844 - 372 pages
...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 pages
...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 - 386 pages
...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,... | |
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