 | Robert Chambers - 1837 - 342 pages
...place, described : — CHARACTER OF SIR HUDIBRAS. 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 ; He'd run in debt by disputation, And pay with ratiocination : All this by syllogism true, In mood and figure... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1837 - 294 pages
...place, described : — CHARACTER Or SIR HUDIBRAS. 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 ; HeM run in debt by disputation, And pay with ratiocination : All this by syllogism true, In mood... | |
 | 1837 - 1068 pages
...reason. Their character bears close resemblance to that which Butler gives of his hero Sir Hudibras : " He was in logic a great critic, Profoundly skilled...analytic ; He could distinguish and divide A hair 'twi.vt south and southwest side ; On either which he would dispute, Confute, change hands, and still... | |
 | William Cramp - 1838 - 288 pages
...THE INDEFINITE ARTICLE., BUTLER'S DESCRIPTION OF HUDIBRAS' TALENTS AS A LOGICIAN. " He was in Logic o 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 ; « He'd... | |
 | James Grant - 1839 - 270 pages
...know nothing of him in his private capacity, and ho doubt it is so. DR. WHATELY, ARCHBISHOP OF DUBLIN. He was in logic a great critic, Profoundly skilled...and divide A hair, 'twixt south and south-west side ; All which, by syllogism true, In mood and figure, he would do. — BUTLER. IN the preparation of... | |
 | Mask (pseud.) - 1839 - 260 pages
...nothing of him in his private capacity, and no doubt it is so. DR. WHATELY, ARCHBISHOP OF DUBLIN. He WMS in logic a great critic, Profoundly skilled in analytic....and divide A hair, 'twixt south and south,west side ; All which, by syllogism true, In mood and figure, he would do. — SUTLER. IN the preparation of... | |
 | Mask (pseud.) - 1839 - 256 pages
...know nothing of him hi his private capacity, and no doubt it is so. DR. WHATELY, ARCHBISHOP OF DUBLIN. He was in logic a great critic, Profoundly skilled...analytic. He could distinguish and divide A hair, 'hvixt south and south•west side ; All which, by syllogism true, In mood and figure, he would do.—BUTLER.... | |
 | Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - 1840 - 644 pages
...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 pages
...commonly giveth best way. The lower and i Studies become habits. * Splitters of hairs, like Hudibras, Who was in logic a great critic Profoundly skilled in...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... | |
 | 1844 - 520 pages
...side was not altogether exempt. For instance — " He was in logic a great critic, Profoundly skill'd in analytic; He could distinguish and divide A hair...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, And that a lord may be an... | |
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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. 
