...himself could improve the definition just given, though in the exercise of his subtle logomathy, ' He could distinguish and divide A hair twixt south and south-west side.' ' With all due deference,' remarked the vice-president, ' I think we need not go so far as Greece for...

...of childhood, reverence; of manhood, maturity; and of old age, wisdom.— Sir Walter Raleigh. 639. Logician. — He was in Logic a great critic, Profoundly...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...

...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...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...

...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...

...place, described : — CHARACTER OP 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...

...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...

...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...

...Surely Sir Hudibras would scarcely be a caricature of these scholastic knight-errants! ' On either side 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...

...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...

...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...