 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
 | Samuel Butler - 1857 - 374 pages
...was, perhaps, Not as a proselyte, but f@r claps. He was in logic a great critic, 65 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 : :o He'd undertake to prove, by force... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1848 - 786 pages
...Than to a blackbird 'tis to whistle. HIS LOGIC. 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... | |
 | Oliver Oldham - Humorous recitations - 1858 - 422 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...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... | |
 | John William Donaldson - Greek literature - 1858 - 398 pages
...kind of explication by way of subdivision, which is exhibited in the Sophiste* (Hudibras, I. i, 65): ' He was in logic a great critic Profoundly skilled...divide, A hair 'twixt south and south-west side.' from that of theHeracleitean Cratylus;1 to show, in fact, that if the Heracleiteans were wrong in their... | |
 | Karl Otfried Müller, John William Donaldson - Greek literature - 1858 - 550 pages
...described the kind of explication by way of subdivision, which is exhibited in the (Hudlbrat, I. i, 65): ' He was in logic a great critic Profoundly skilled...could distinguish and divide, A hair 'twixt south and »outh-west lide.' from that of theHeracleitean Cratylus;1 to show, in fact, that if the Ileracleiteans... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1859 - 780 pages
...as pigs squeak ; That Latin was no more difficile4 Than to a blackbird 'tis to whistle. HIS LOGIC. 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1860 - 766 pages
...Than to a blackbird 'tis to whistle. HIS LOGIC. 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... | |
 | Evenings - 1860 - 386 pages
...as sufficed To make some think him circumcised. 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... | |
 | Beverley Tucker - 1861 - 438 pages
...change in his opinions, such conduct always commanded her gratitude and approbation. CHAPTER VIII. He was, in logic, a great critic, Profoundly skilled...could distinguish and divide A hair, 'twixt south and nouthwest side. HDDIBEAS. AMONG those who had thus manifested a disposition to win the favor of Delia... | |
 | English language - 1861 - 312 pages
...place, described : — CHARACTER OF SIR HODIBfLAI. 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 run in debt by disputation,... | |
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