Vulgar words in Graham's Magazine Vol. XXXII No. 2. February 1848 (Page 1)
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Finally, the American having been satisfied with a reference to "subjects which have absorbed the most glorious understandings," the Cockney puts him to shame at once by discoursing about "subjects which have _occupied and_ absorbed the most glorious _of human_ understandings"--as if one could be absorbed, without being occupied, by a subject--as if "_of_" were here any thing more than two superfluous letters--and as if there were any chance of the reader's supposing that the understandings in question were the understandings of frogs, or jackasses, or Johnny Bulls.