 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, a man's no horse ; He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl, And that a lord may be an owl, A calf an...  The Literature of Society - Página 217por Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1862Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1840 - 372 páginas
...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 skill'd...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,... | |
 | 1840 - 372 páginas
...either would afford To many that had not one word. He was in logic a great critic, Profoundly skiU'd in analytic : He could distinguish, and divide A hair...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,... | |
 | Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - 1840 - 644 páginas
...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...would dispute, Confute, change hands and still confute ; And run in debt by disputation, And pay with raciocination. All this, by Syllogism true, In mood... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 páginas
...become habits. * Splitters of hairs, like Hudibras, Who was in logic a great critic Profoundly skilled in analytic ; He could distinguish and divide A hair 'twixt south and south-west side. weaker faction is the firmer in conjunction ; and it is often seen, that a few that are stifl', do... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1841 - 844 páginas
...To make some think him circumcised ; And truly so he was perhaps Not as a proselyte, but for claps. He was in logic a great critic, Profoundly skill'd...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,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 páginas
...His bounty unto such as wanted ; But much of either would afford To many, that had riot one word. * * he , , ; He'd undertake to prove by force Of argument a man's no horse ; He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl,... | |
 | 1844 - 520 páginas
...— defects, however, from many of which his own side was not altogether exempt. For instance — " He was in logic a great critic, Profoundly skill'd...dispute, Confute, change hands, and still confute; He'd undertake to prove, hy force Of argument, a man's no horse ; He'd prove a buzzard is no fuwl,... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - 1844 - 372 páginas
...the state ; and his character is thus, in the first place, described : CHARACTER OP SIR HUDIBRAS. • He was in logic a great critic, Profoundly skill'd...southwest side ; On either which he would dispute, '220 BIUT1SI1 POETS. He'd ran in debt by disputation, And pay with ratiocination : All this by syllogism... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 868 páginas
...acknowledgment of the original and essential goodness of God the father of all. Clarke. Sermon l.vol. X. He was in logic a great critic, Profoundly skill'd...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 - 1846 - 290 páginas
...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 skill'd...dispute, Confute, change hands, and still confute. He'd undertake to prove, by force Of argument, a man's no horje ; He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl,... | |
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