 | John Gwyn Jeffreys - 1863 - 506 Seiten
...these so-called species must have greater ingenuity than even the learned knight, of whom it was said " He could distinguish and divide A hair, 'twixt south and south-west side." The variety " squamula" is flatter and smoother than usual; " aculeata" has the imbricated scales pinched... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 Seiten
...II. Act IV. Scene 2. (Cade to Dick.) LOGIC. — He was in logic a great critie, Profoundly skill'd in analytic : He could distinguish, and divide A hair...dispute, Confute, change hands, and still confute. LONDON. — The very houses seem asleep ; And all that mighty heart is lying still ! WORDSWORTH. —... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1864 - 518 Seiten
...some indecent phrases, were after corrected He was in Logic a great critic,* el Profoundly skill'd in Analytic ; He could distinguish, and divide A hair 'twixt south and south-west side ; On «ither side he would dispute, Confute, change hands, and still confute ;1 TO He'd undertake to prove... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 252 Seiten
...rage but half a grain ; Which made some take him for a tool That knaves do work with, called a fool He was in logic a great critic, Profoundly skilled...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 Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 Seiten
...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...'twixt south and south-west side; On either which he woidd dispute, Confute, change hands, and still confute: He'd undertake to prove, by force Of argument,... | |
 | 1865 - 980 Seiten
...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 tough as... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 1866 - 390 Seiten
...in logic a great critic, « Profoundly skill'd in analytic ; He could distinguish, and divide A hah- 'twixt south and south-west side; On either which...dispute, Confute, change hands, and still confute : 10 He'd undertake to prove, by force Of argument, a man's no horse ; V. 55, 56. This is the property... | |
 | George Oliver - 1867 - 412 Seiten
...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...dispute, Confute, change hands, and still confute," had not then obtained such complete possession of the mind as to induce men to advance arguments in... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 Seiten
...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... | |
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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. 
