Vulgar words in Amelia — Volume 1 (Page 1)
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The witness was now about to be discharged, when the lady whom he had accused declared she would swear the peace against him, for that he had called her a whore several times.
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Good woman!--the lady's a whore as well as myself!
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The child knows not but that the bugbear is the proper object of fear, the blockhead knows not that a cannon-ball is so.
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And though I must confess I never thought Aristotle (whom I do not take for so great a blockhead as some who have never read him) doth not very well resolve the doubt which he hath raised in his Ethics, viz., How a man in the midst of King Priam's misfortunes can be called happy?
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and considered in the light of a buffoon?
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The reader may easily believe she was on no account pleased with Amelia's presence; indeed, she expected from her some of those insults of which virtuous women are generally so liberal to a frail sister: but she was mistaken; Amelia was not one Who thought the nation ne'er would thrive, Till all the whores were burnt alive.
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I know what the impertinence of virtue is, and I can submit to it; but to be treated thus by a whore--You must forgive me, dear Booth, but your success was a kind of triumph over me, which I could not bear.
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But, besides my passion for her, she hath now piqued my pride; for how can a man of my fortune brook being refused by a whore?"