Vulgar words in Life of John Coleridge Patteson : Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands (Page 1)

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bastard x 4
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This time, 1843, Coley, who was scarcely sixteen, had of course but little chance, but he had the pleasure of announcing that his great friend, Edmund Bastard, a young Devonshire squire, was among the 'select,' and he says of himself: 'You will, as I said before, feel satisfied that I did my best, but it was an unlucky examination for me.

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Here Coleridge Patteson came to reside in the Michaelmas term of 1845; beginning with another attempt for the scholarship, in which he was again unsuccessful, being bracketed immediately after the fourth with another Etonian, namely, Mr. Hornby, the future head-master, His friend, Edmund Bastard, several of his relations, and numerous friends had preceded him; and he wrote to his sister Fanny:-- 'You cannot think what a nice set of acquaintance I am gradually slipping into.

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It is silly to let these things really affect one, only that it now seems rather to knock me up.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 306   ~   ~   ~

This time, 1843, Coley, who was scarcely sixteen, had of course but little chance, but he had the pleasure of announcing that his great friend, Edmund Bastard, a young Devonshire squire, was among the 'select,' and he says of himself: 'You will, as I said before, feel satisfied that I did my best, but it was an unlucky examination for me.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 436   ~   ~   ~

Here Coleridge Patteson came to reside in the Michaelmas term of 1845; beginning with another attempt for the scholarship, in which he was again unsuccessful, being bracketed immediately after the fourth with another Etonian, namely, Mr. Hornby, the future head-master, His friend, Edmund Bastard, several of his relations, and numerous friends had preceded him; and he wrote to his sister Fanny:-- 'You cannot think what a nice set of acquaintance I am gradually slipping into.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 7,108   ~   ~   ~

It is silly to let these things really affect one, only that it now seems rather to knock me up.

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