 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1850 - 596 pages
...that had not one word. • • • He was in logic a great critic, Profoundly skilled in analytie. He could distinguish and divide A hair 'twixt south and south-west side: On either which he could dispute, Confute, change hands, and still confute. He'd undertake to prove, by force Of argument,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 pages
...would afford To many, that had not one word. * * He wan in logic a great critic, Profoundly skill'd ss, of some more mollified and softened in mind ; one kind aptcr to aide ; On either which he would dispute, Confute, change hands, and still confute ; He'd undertake... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 pages
...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...confute; He'd undertake to prove by force Of argument, a man '•- no horse ; He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl, And that a lord may be an owl, A calf an alderman,... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 602 pages
...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...confute; He'd undertake to prove by force Of argument, a man 's no horse ; He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl, And that a lord may be an owl, A calf an alderman,... | |
 | William Jerdan - 1852 - 386 pages
...infirmity of the Drawing Master account : Turner was a singular compound. CHAPTER XIX. PETER PINDAB. He could distinguish and divide A hair "twixt south...confute. He'd undertake to prove, by force Of argument, a Man no Horse. He'd prove a Buzzard is no fowl, And that a Lord may be an Owl ; A Calf an Alderman —... | |
 | 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...confute. He'd undertake to prove, by force Of argument, a Man no Horse. He'd prove a Buzzard is no fowl, And that a Lord may be an Owl ; A Calf an Alderman —... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - 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...dispute, Confute, change hands, and still confute ; He'd run in debt by disputation, And pay with ratiocination : AH this by syllogism true, In mood and figure... | |
 | Samuel Neil - 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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twixt south and southwest side; On either which he would dispute, Confute, change hands, and still confute. He'd undertake to prove by force Of argument, a man's no horse; He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl, And that a lord may be an owl; A calf an alderman,... 
