I endeavoured to get a more particular account of him from my companion, but he seemed unwilling even to talk about him, answering only in general terms, that he was "a cursed busy fellow, that had a confounded trick of talking, and was apt to bother one about the national debt, and such nonsense;" from which I suspected that Master Simon had been rendered wary of him by some accidental encounter on the field of argument; for these radicals are continually roving about in quest of wordy warfare, and never so happy as when they can tilt a gentleman logician out of his saddle.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
It is active and passive, object and subject, ego and non ego-every kind of Irish bull, in fact, which a sound logician abhors-and it is only because it has persevered, as I said in "Life and Habit," in thus defying logic and arguing most virtuously in a most vicious circle, that it has come in the persons of some of its descendants to reason with sufficient soundness.
"Luck or Cunning?"
Samuel Butler
They were crude and superficial and would at any other time have provoked a contradiction from our friend who was a sharp and keen logician.
"The Dead Lake and Other Tales"
Paul Heyse