 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 2451856Full view - About this book
 | Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - Bible - 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 and south-west side ; On either which, he would dispute, Confute, change hands and still confute ; And run in debt by disputation,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 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 '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... | |
 | 1844 - 520 pages
...side was not altogether exempt. For instance — " 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; On either which he would dispute, Confute, change hands, and still confute; He'd undertake to prove, hy force... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - English language - 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 hair 'twixt south and southwest side ; On either which he would dispute, '220 BIUT1SI1 POETS. He'd ran in debt by disputation, And pay with ratiocination... | |
 | 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 - English poetry - 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 '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... | |
 | United States - 1846 - 156 pages
...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... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1847 - 526 pages
...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... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1847 - 540 pages
...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 - Education, Medical - 1847 - 78 pages
...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... | |
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