 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1850 - 596 páginas
...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....prove a buzzard — is no fowl, And that a lord may be — an owl ; A calf — an alderman ; a goose— a justice; And rooks — committee-men and trustees.1... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 488 páginas
...OF THE SUNDAYSABBATARIANS. " lie was in logic a great critic. Profoundly skilled in analytic ; lie could distinguish, and divide A hair 'twixt south...dispute, Confute, change hands, and still confute.'' Suditma. PROTESTANTS ami Protestant Dissenters, if they wish to be esteemed deserving of the name they... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 602 páginas
...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,... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 páginas
...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,... | |
 | William Jerdan - 1852 - 386 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 páginas
...poverty? In love I should; but anger is not love, Nor wisdom neither: therefore gently move. — Herbert. He'd undertake to prove, by force Of argument a man's...He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl, And that a lord may be an owl, A calf an alderman, a goose a justice, And rooks committee-men and trustees. Butler. In... | |
 | Samuel Neil - 1853 - 314 páginas
...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... | |
 | Theodore Alors W. Buckley - 1854 - 332 páginas
...intellectual natures. gewrigtura 0f a SuWIe BUTLEB. HE was in logic a great critic, Profoundly skill'd in analytic ; * He could distinguish, and divide A...He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl, And that a lord may be an owl, A calf an alderman, a goose a justice, And rooks committee-men and trustees. He'd run in... | |
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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,... 
