Punch's Political Dictionary
Anon
Genre: | Regular Feature, Notes, Drollery |
Subjects: | Machinery, Human Species |
In defining 'machinery', notes that 'Man is sometimes called a machine' and a coach-horse 'a valuable machiner'. Infers that 'the brute is considered well-adapted to draw a bathing-machine at a watering-place'. | |
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