Vulgar words in Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, September 18, 1841 (Page 1)
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He must plan charities, organise mobs, causing free-schools to be knocked up, and opponents to be knocked down.
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For instance, it would be vulgarly ridiculous to call a "cat" by its right name; and when one says "cat," a dogmatic naturalist is justified in thinking one means a lion or tiger, both these belonging to the _cat_egory of "cats;" hence, a "cat" is denominated, for shortness, _felis Ægyptiacus;_ an ass is turned into a horse, by being an _equus_; a woman into a man, for with him she is equally _homo_.