Profoundly skill'd 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 undertake to prove, by force Of argument, a man's no horse ;... Hudibras - Seite 4von Samuel Butler - 1861 - 498 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| John Bell - 1797 - 722 Seiten
...had such plenty as suffic'd To make some thick him circumcis'd; And truly so he was, perbaps, lsTot as a proselyte, but for claps. He was in logic a great critie, 65 Profoundly skill'din analytic; He could distinguish, and divide A hair 'twixt south and... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 654 Seiten
...flourish most in barren ground, He had such plenty, as sumc'd To make some think him circumcis'd ; And truly so he was, perhaps, Not as a proselyte,...could distinguish, and divide A hair 'twixt south and so'jth-west side ; On either which he would dispute, Confute, change hands, and still confute : He'd... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1811 - 510 Seiten
...Iraniinj. •re ii,:!'ly ridiculed in the First Canto of Hudthras. — Thus t— • '' He was in lo^ic a great critic, Profoundly skill'd in analytic: . He could distinguish, and divide A hair 'twixt sonth and sonth-west side; On either which he would dispnte, Confnte, change hands, and still confute... | |
| 1811 - 706 Seiten
...Churchman himself a Calvinist, must be 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 : On either which he would dispute, Confute, change hands, and still confute. As we despair to... | |
| Robert Deverell - 1816 - 304 Seiten
...they're mistaken very much, 'Tis plain enough he was no such. He was in logic a great critic, €5 Profoundly skill'd 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 70 For rhetoric,... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1819 - 644 Seiten
...flourish most in barren ground, He had such plenty, as suffic'd To make some think him circumcis'd ; And truly so he was, perhaps, Not as a proselyte,...claps. He was in logic a great critic, Profoundly skilPd in analytic ; He could distinguish, and divide A hair 'twixt south and south-west side; On either... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 412 Seiten
...Hebrew roots, although they're found To flourish most in barren ground, He had such plenty, as suffic'd And truly so he was, perhaps, Not as a proselyte, but for claps.* He was in logic a gveat critic, Profoundly skill'd in analytic ; He could distinguish, and divide A hair, 'twixt south... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1819 - 560 Seiten
...was, perhaps, Nor as a prosylete, but for claps. He was in logic a great critic, 65 Profoundly skilltl in analytic ; He could distinguish and divide A hair, 'twixt south and south-west side; [q ^iT' On either which he would dispute, ~ff Confute, change hands, and still confulr. 70 He'd... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 416 Seiten
...that had not one word. For Hebrew roots, although they're found To flourish most in barren ground, And truly so he was, perhaps, Not as a proselyte, but for elaps.* He was in logie a great eritie, Profoundly skill'd in analytie ; He eould distinguish, and... | |
| Abraham John Valpy - 1822 - 582 Seiten
...venture to point out a passage, which I think he himself must pronounce highly poetical, as follows : " He was in logic a great critic, Profoundly skill'd...distinguish and divide A hair 'twixt south and south-west side: On either which he would dispute, Con/tiff, change hand*, aud still confute ; He'd undertake... | |
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