 | Samuel Butler - 1885 - 300 דפים
...quiddity, The ghost of defunct bodies fly ; Where truth in person does appear, Like words congealed in northern air. „ He knew what's what, and that's...school-divinity as able " As he that hight Irrefragable ? (A. second Thomas, or, at once •l-To name them all, another Duns ; Profound in all the Nominal... | |
 | William Swinton - 1886 - 690 דפים
...schoolmen. 111-114. Where entity, etc. Of what verb understood are these two clauses the objects ? 81 He knew what's what, and that's as high As metaphysic wit* can fly. In school divinity as able As he that hight * irrefragable ; A second Thomas, or, at once To name them... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1887 - 216 דפים
...quiddity, The ghosts of defunct bodies, fly ; Where truth in person does appear, Like words congealed in northern air ; He knew what's what, and that's as high As metaphysic wit can fly." — Hudibras, pt. ii., canto 1. Fleer, to mock, gibe. " Never fleer and jest at me." SHAKESPEARE :... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1888 - 504 דפים
...wrote bitterly against Pope John XX II. We all remember Butler's account of these worthies : — " He knew what's what, and that's as high As metaphysic wit can fly 5 In school divinity as able As he that bight Irrefragable, A second Thomas, or at once To name them... | |
 | Charles Haddon Spurgeon - 1889 - 362 דפים
...truths and the more practical duties. We are afraid that it cannot be said of certain of them— " He knew what's what, and that's as high As metaphysic wit can fly." By the street of By-and-by we come to the house of Never. Then shun the road, my youthful friends ;... | |
 | 1890 - 398 דפים
...Thanks to men Of noble minds, is honorable meed." JA GANN, MD, Wooster. " MEDICINE AS A SCIENCE." " He knew what's what, and that's as high As metaphysic wit can fly." " MEDICINE AS AN ART," " A wise physician, skilled our wounds to heal, Is more than armies to the public... | |
 | Simon Somerville Laurie - 1892 - 320 דפים
...mind like Ascham's could hit very near the mark without the formal machinery of philosophy : — " He knew what's what, and that's as high As metaphysic wit can fly." And what came of it all, so far as the practice of schools is concerned ? Nothing. And yet that staunch... | |
 | Samuel Butler, Reginald Brimley Johnson - 1893 - 396 דפים
...Quiddity, 145 The ghosts of defunct bodies, fly ; Where truth in person does appear, Like words oongeal'd in northern air. He knew what's what, and that's as high As metaphysic wit can fly : 150 In school-divinity as able As he that night Irrefragable ; 129 130 Omitted in first edition,... | |
 | Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - 1895 - 944 דפים
...understood b' implicit faith ; Whatever sceptic could inquire for, For every why he had a wherefore. " He knew what's what, and that's as high As metaphysic wit can fly." Now 1 think these expressions, " for every why," and " he knew what's what," are among the very earliest... | |
 | 1896 - 1224 דפים
...be known, But much more than he knew would own. T. BUTLER — Hudibras. Pt. II. Canto III. L. 297. D\3 M B '1 s. BUTTER — flndibrat. Pt. 1. Canto I. L. 149. Nor do I know what is become Of him, more than the... | |
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But oftentimes mistook the one For th' other, as great clerks have done. He could reduce all things to acts, And knew their natures by abstracts ; Where entity and quiddity, The ghosts of defunct bodies, fly ; Where truth in person does appear, Like words... 
