use of the knife, and leave me to cut you up with the pen as occasion shall serve, I remain, etc. (April 21, 1852)."
I received polite thanks, but not a word about the body of the letter: my argument, I suppose, was admitted.
SOME DOGGEREL AND COUNTER DOGGEREL.
I find among my miscellaneous papers the following jeu d'esprit, or jeu de bêtise,[[719]] whichever the reader pleases—I care not—intended, before I saw ground for abstaining, to have, as the phrase is, come in somehow. I think I could manage to bring anything into anything: certainly into a Budget of Paradoxes. Sir W. H. rather piqued himself upon some caniculars, or doggerel verses, which he had put together in memoriam [technicam] of the way in which A E I O are used in logic: he added U, Y, for the addition of meet, etc., to the system. I took the liberty of concocting some counter-doggerel, just to show that a mathematician may have architectonic power as well as a metaphysician.
DOGGEREL.
BY SIR W. HAMILTON.
A it affirms of this, these, all,
Whilst E denies of any;
I it affirms (whilst O denies)
Of some (or few, or many).