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" 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,... "
The Philadelphia Journal of Homœopathy - Page 245
1856
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The English Master: Or, Student's Guide to Reasoning and Composition ...

William Banks - English language - 1823 - 462 pages
...the learned. In enumerating the rare qualifications of his hero sir Hudibras, he informs us, that, " He was in logic a great critic, Profoundly skilled...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...
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...Not as n proselyte, but for claps. He was in logic a great critie, Profoundly skill'd in analytie: Hazlitt which he would dispute, Confute, change hands, and still confute: He'd undertake to prove, by force...
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Select Poets of Great Britain: To which are Prefixed, Criticial Notices of ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...proselyte, but for elaps. He was in logie a great eritie, Profoundly skilTd in analytie : He eould anee due, Dispenses light from far ; they, as they move T'neir starry danee whieh he would dispute, Confute, ehange hands, and still eonfute : He'd undertake to prove, by foree...
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Hudibras: In Three Parts

Samuel Butler - 1829 - 348 pages
...as a proselyte, but for claps. He was in logic a great critick, 65 Profoundly skill'd in analytick ; 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. 70 He'd undertake to prove, by force...
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Hudibras; with notes by T.R. Nash, Volume 1

Samuel Butler - 1835 - 410 pages
...he was, 'Tis many a pious Christian's case.9 He was in Logic a great critic,i 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 Of argument, a man's no horse ; He'd prove a buzzard is no...
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Hudibras, Volume 1

Samuel Butler - Poets, English - 1835 - 456 pages
...he was, Tis many a pious Christian's case.8 He was in Logic a great critic,i 65 Profoundly skill'd in Analytic ; He could distinguish, and divide A hair...dispute, Confute, change hands, and still confute ;8 70 He'd undertake to prove, by force Of argument, a man's no horse ; He'd prove a buzzard is no...
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The Poetical Works of Samuel Butler, Volume 1

Samuel Butler - 1835 - 340 pages
...was, perhaps, Not as a proselyte, but for claps. t|e 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 : 70 He'd undertake to prove, by force...
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The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, Volume 8

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1836 - 780 pages
...himself could improve the definition just given, though in the exercise of his subtle logomathy, ' He could distinguish and divide A hair twixt south and south-west side.' ' With all due deference,' remarked the vice-president, ' I think we need not go so far as Greece for...
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Materials for thinking, extracted from the works of ancient and modern ...

1837 - 352 pages
...reverence; of manhood, maturity; and of old age, wisdom.— Sir Walter Raleigh. 639. Logician. — He was in Logic a great critic, Profoundly skilled...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...
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The American Biblical Repository, Volume 10

Theology - 1837 - 528 pages
...reason. Their character bears close resemblance to that which Butler gives of his hero Sir Hudibras : " He was in logic a great critic, Profoundly skilled...A hair 'twixt south and southwest side ; On either which he would dispute, Confute, change hands, and still confute. He'd undertake to prove, by force...
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