Explore "Passages from the Life of a Philosopher" by Charles Babbage on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
Poor Dogs -- Puns Double and Triple -- History of the Silver Lady -- Disappointed by the Milliner -- The Philosopher performs her functions -- Lady Morgan's Criticism -- Allsop's Beer -- Sydney Smith -- Toss up a Bishop -- Lady M -- -- and the Gipsy in Spain -- Epigram on the Planet Neptune -- Epigram on Henry Drummond's attack upon Catholics in the House of Commons -- On Catholic Miracles.
It has often struck me that an analysis of the causes of wit would be a very interesting subject of inquiry. With that view I collected many jest-books, but fortunately in this one instance I had resolution to abstain from distracting my attention from more important inquiries.