ORIGINAL RHYME.
Didactic, Instructivb, aot Dramatic.
Some of my readers may possibly be unaware tha* " Sophists " was a name at first given to Philosophers, and those who were remarkable for thoir wisdom ; it was afterwards applied to rhetoricians ; and lastly to Buch as spent their time in verbal niceties, logical conundrums, sententious quibbles, and philosophical etiig--mas. The following called the Pseudomeno* was a famous problem amongst the ancient Sophists, " When a man sayß, / lie, does he lie, or does he not tie ? If he lies, he speaks truth ; and if he speaks the truth, he Kes " *' There's more in what you leave unsaid than what you say, To make the popular man in the present day."
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Otago Witness, Issue 1341, 11 August 1877, Page 19
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116ORIGINAL RHYME. Otago Witness, Issue 1341, 11 August 1877, Page 19
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