 | 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...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, a goose a justice, And... | |
 | Samuel Butler, George Gilfillan - 1854 - 296 páginas
...perhaps he was, es Tis many a pious Christian's case. He was in logic a great critic, Profoundly skill'd in analytic : He could distinguish, and divide A hair...dispute, Confute, change hands, and still confute. ro He'd undertake to prove, by force Of argument, a man's no horse ; He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl,... | |
 | 1856 - 778 páginas
...analysis and the logic, we concede them, of course, and admit that like his noble and learned antitype, " He was in logic a great critic, Profoundly skilled...A hair 'twixt south and south-west side, On either side he would dispute, Confute, change hands, and still confute !" But to be serious once more, is... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 páginas
...HIS LOGIC. He was in logic a great critic, Profoundly r-kill'd in analytic: He could diKtiniruish, and divide A hair 'twixt south and south-west side; On either which he would dispute. Confute, chance hands, and still confute: He'd undertake to prove, by force Of argument, a man's no horse; He'd... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1856 - 406 páginas
...cummin-seeds ;" or, as we now say, "splitters of straws," or " hairs." Butler says of Hudibras: — " He could distinguish and divide A hair 'twixt south and southwest side." LI.— OF FACTION. MANY have an opinion not wise, that for a prince to govern his estate, or for a... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 páginas
...squeak. That Latin was no more difficile, Than to a blackbird 'tis to whistle. Part i. Canto i. Line 67. He could distinguish, and divide A hair, 'twixt south and south-west side. Part i. Canto i. Line 81. For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope. Part... | |
 | Tucker Brooke, Matthias A. Shaaber - 1989 - 490 páginas
...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...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; . . . All this by syllogism, true In mood... | |
 | 1969 - 440 páginas
...Profoundly skill'd in Analytick. 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. Samuel Butler (161z?-168o), Hudibras, Part I, Canto I George O. May, writing in 1954, suggested that... | |
 | Royall Tyler - 1970 - 234 páginas
...West at about this time. He could distinguish and divide, A hair 'twixt south and south west side: 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. Hudibras ARGUMENT Curious Argument, between... | |
 | 1842 - 1044 páginas
...A hair ‘twlit south atid touth-west side; On either side be could dispute, Confute, change bands and still confute; He'd undertake to prove by force Of argument, a man's no horse; He'd prove a bumrd is no ¿wI And that a lord may be an owl, A calf an aldermen, a goose ajustice, And rooks... | |
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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,... 
