Comic Annual,  4 (1833), 30–35.

Some Account of William Whiston

[Thomas Hood]

Genre:

Biography, Spoof

Subjects:

Natural Philosophy


    A spoof biography of a man who had loved whist from childhood: 'Our bias dates from much earlier than some natural philosophers suppose' (31).



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