Vulgar words in History of John Bull (Page 1)
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Besides, if this ejectment were practicable is it reasonable that, when Esquire South is losing his money to sharpers and pickpockets, going about the country with fiddlers and buffoons, and squandering his income with hawks and dogs, I should lay out the fruits of my honest industry in a lawsuit for him, only upon the hopes of being his clothier?
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Then "fool," "puppy," and "blockhead," were the best words they gave.
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They told him in plain terms that this was come as a judgment upon him for his loose life, his gluttony, drunkenness, and avarice; for laying aside his father's will in an old mouldy trunk, and turning stock-jobber, newsmonger, and busybody, meddling with other people's affairs, shaking off his old serious friends, and keeping company with buffoons and pickpockets, his father's sworn enemies; that he had best throw himself upon the mercy of the court, repent, and change his manners.
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One contained these words: "Dear Lewis, thou seest clearly that this blockhead can never bring his matters to bear.
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In all these epistles, blockhead, dunce, ass, coxcomb, were the best epithets he gave poor John.