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
| John Bartlett - Quotations - 1865 - 504 pages
...squeak. That Latin was no more difficile, Than to a blackbird 't is to whistle. Part i. Canto i. Line 51. He could distinguish, and divide A hair, 'twixt south and southwest side. Part i. Canto i. Line 67. For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope. Part... | |
| Great Britain - 1865 - 980 pages
...ench a person, though — " lie be in logic a great critic, Profoundly skilled in analytic; lie can distinguish and divide A hair 'twixt south and south-west side, — On either which he can dispute. Confute, change hands, and still confute. For be a rope of sand can twist, As... | |
| Henry George Bohn - Quotations - 1867 - 752 pages
...deck With shining ringlets her smooth ivory neck. " 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, Hud. 1, I. 65. If a man who turnips cries. Cries not when his "father dies, 'Tis a sign that... | |
| George Oliver - 1867 - 412 pages
...printing was invented ; and the subtleties of special pleading, or as Hudibras expresses it, a power to -distinguish and divide A hair 'twixt south and southwest side ; On either which he would dispute, Confute, change hands, and still confute," had not then obtained such complete... | |
| William Francis Collier - English literature - 1868 - 550 pages
...whose Puritan manners and opinions we represented in a most ludicrous light. THE LEARNING OF I1UDIBRAS. He was in logic a great critic, Profoundly skilled...distinguish, and divide A hair 'twixt south and south-west aide ; 15 SPECIMEN OF " HUDIBEA.S. On either which he would dispute, Confute, change hands, and still... | |
| James Riddell - Aberdeen (Scotland) - 1868 - 152 pages
...from the original Hebrew or Greek. Besides this, 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, His people were thus profoundly impressed with the extent of his erudition,... | |
| Jacob Piatt Dunn - Indianapolis (Ind.) - 1910 - 682 pages
...Scriptures, unto their own destruction". The last century preacher, like Tludibras, "Was in logic quite a critic, Profoundly skilled in analytic ; He could distinguish and divide A hair twixt North and Northwest side." And yet, trained logicians as they were, nobody grasped the evident fact... | |
| 1856 - 1026 pages
...dogmatic dictation. Blainville seems always to have been one of those described by Butler in Hudibras : " He was in logic a great critic, Profoundly skilled in analytic ! He would distinguish and divide A hair, 'twixt south and south-west side ; On Either which he would dispute,... | |
| Tucker Brooke, Matthias A. Shaaber - English literature - 1989 - 490 pages
...other opponent who offers. The knight was, we are told, 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... | |
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