 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
 | William Jerdan - 1852 - 430 pages
...infirmity of the Drawing Master account : Turner was a singular compound. CHAPTEE XIX. PETER PINDAR. 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... | |
 | English language - 1852 - 364 pages
...described : CHARACTER OF SIR HUDIBRAS. He was in logic a great critic, Profoundly skill'd in analytic : lie could distinguish, and divide A hair 'twixt south and southwest side ; On either which he would dispute, Confute, change hands, and still confute ; He'd run in debt by disputation,... | |
 | Samuel Neil - Logic - 1853 - 314 pages
...sharpen their mental powers in order that they may attain the mind-subtlety of ! I in I ilit'ui : — " He was in Logic a great critic, Profoundly skilled...distinguish and divide A hair 'twixt south and south-west aide, — On either which he would dispute, Confute, change hands, and still confute ; For he a rope... | |
 | Humorous recitations - 1853 - 404 pages
...scanted His bounty unto such as wanted ; But much of either would afford To many, that had not one word. He was in logic a great critic, Profoundly skilled...analytic ; He could distinguish, and divide A hair 'twist south and southwest side ; On either which he would dispute, Confute, change hands. and still... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...his naked head. 'Byron. LOGIC. LONDON. 407 LOGIC. HE waa in logic a great critic, Profoundly skill'd in analytic; He could distinguish and divide A hair 'twixt south, and south-west side. Butler. Logicians use to clap a proposition, As justices do criminals m prison, And in as learn'd authentic... | |
 | Theodore Alors W. Buckley - Children's literature, English - 1854 - 332 pages
...intellectual natures. gewrigtura 0f a SuWIe BUTLEB. 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... | |
 | Samuel Butler, George Gilfillan - 1854 - 296 pages
...perhaps he was, es Tis many a pious Christian's case. 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. ro He'd undertake to prove, by force... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1856 - 660 pages
...squeak. That Latin was no more difficile, Than to a blackbird 'tis to whistle. Part i. Canto i. Line 67. He could distinguish, and divide A hair, 'twixt south and south-west side. Part i. Canto i. Line 81. For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope. Part... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1856 - 406 pages
...cummin-seeds ;" or, as we now say, "splitters of straws," or " hairs." Butler says of Hudibras: — " He could distinguish and divide A hair 'twixt south and southwest side." LI.— OF FACTION. MANY have an opinion not wise, that for a prince to govern his estate, or for a... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1857 - 404 pages
...His bounty unto such as wanted; But much of either would afford To many, that had not one word. . . 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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