 | 1837 - 352 sidor
...a lord may be an owl, A calf an alderman, a goose a justice, And rooks committee-men and trustee*. He'd run in debt by disputation, And pay with ratiocination....could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope. — Butler. 640. Made/sty of True Wisdom. — There is, among the records of "Newton, a sentence in... | |
 | 1837 - 1068 sidor
...a lord may be an owl ; A calf an alderman, a goose a justice, And rooks committee-men and trustees. He'd run in debt by disputation, And pay with ratiocination...by syllogism true, In mood and figure he would do." Hudibras, Part I. Cant. 1. 1. 65 — 80. The pretensions of these sophists were finely ridiculed by... | |
 | 1837 - 528 sidor
...a lord may be an owl ; A calf an alderman, a goose a justice, And rooks committee-men and trustees. He'd run in debt by disputation, And pay with ratiocination...by syllogism true, In mood and figure he would do." Hudibrcu, Part I. Cant. 1. I. 65—80. The pretensions of these sophists were finely ridiculed by Socrates,... | |
 | 1837 - 704 sidor
...a lord may be an owl, A calf an alderman, a gouse a justice, And rooks committee-men, and trustees. He'd run in debt by disputation, And pay with ratiocination:...syllogism true, In mood and figure, he would do.' It is by no means our intention to attempt the enumeration of the various causes which have led, more... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1837 - 478 sidor
...We do not question but you arc as great an orator as sir Hudibras, of whom the poet sweetly sings. -He could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope." If you will send us down the half dozen well-turned periods, that produced such dismal effects in your... | |
 | William Cramp - 1838 - 288 sidor
...a lord may be an owl, A calf an alderman, a goose a justice, And rooks committee men and trustees ; He'd run in debt by disputation, And pay with ratiocination...by syllogism true, In mood and figure he would do. Canto iv 65—80. These and other illustrations of the parts of speech are given for such readers as... | |
 | Edwin Guest - 1838 - 338 sidor
...light-skirts of the East, In migh|tiest ink\hornis ms : he | can thith|er wrest| . Hall. Sat. 1. 8. All this | by syl\logis\m true; In mood and figure he would do. Butler's Hudibras. Enthu\slas\ms past | redem|ption Gone in a galloping consumption. Burns Letter to... | |
 | 1840 - 372 sidor
...a lord may be an owl ; A calf an alderman, a goose a justice, And rooks committee-men and trustees. He'd run in debt by disputation, And pay with ratiocination...there flew a trope : And when he happen'd to break off I' th' middle of his speech, or cough, H' had hard words ready to show why, And tell what rules he... | |
 | John Patterson (maj.) - 1840 - 388 sidor
...to his fair one, ending with this line, I am, my lovely ' Dalby,' ever thine." THE MAD NEWTONIAN. " For Rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope ; In mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brahe, or Erra Pater ; For he by geometric scale Could take... | |
 | Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - 1840 - 644 sidor
...Confute, change hands and still confute ; And run in debt by disputation, And pay with raciocination. All this, by Syllogism true, In mood and figure, he would do." But we must not mistake this caricature sketched by the fancy of the poet, for a likeness drawn by... | |
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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. 
