Mirror of Literature,  10 (1827), 293–94.

On Coalheavers

Anon

Genre:

Extract, Miscellaneous, Drollery

Publications extracted:

Monthly Magazine

Subjects:

Dynamics


    Discussing the confidence of the coalheaver in walking through the thoroughfares of London, observes: 'let us suppose, that haply you allow your frail carcass to go full drive against his sturdiness, when lo!—in beautiful illustration of those doctrines in projectiles, that relate to the concussion of moving bodies—you fly off at an angle "right slick" into the middle of the carriage-way' (294).



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