Date: 1831
What was the first reception of the gas light ?  what that of the steam engine, the steam boat, and the steam coach ?  But visionary— visionary — visionary — still continues to be at once the observation, the comment, and the argument of every self-satisfied dolt, who, being either too busy or too fat to form a rational opinion for himself, and being, at the same time, too proud to confess that he has never done so, resolves every thing that is extensive and new into this single word, which he repeats upon all occasions, like a magpie or a daw ; never failing, however, to take care that the delivery thereof be sufficiently emphatic and dictatorial.