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"We wonder Mr. Babbage does not invent a punning engine; it is just as possible as a calculating one." --Walter Bagehot, "The First Edinburgh Reviewers", an es
by cafard 6y ago
"We wonder Mr. Babbage does not invent a punning engine; it is just as possible as a calculating one."
--Walter Bagehot, "The First Edinburgh Reviewers", an essay of 1855. You can find the essay at https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101068581279&view=1up&seq=93 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101068581279&vi... .
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- westcort 6y agoThis is amazing! I guess we have gone full circle. This also ties in to the other thing locserendipity.com does. It is a corpus of all pre-1918 books. Just use site:locserendipity.com in Google.