Vulgar words in Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers (Page 1)
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One blow knocked up the sword; a second laid the villain prostrate.
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Only blockheads adjust their scale of guilt to the scale of human punishments.
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Then let me tell you, that you are missing the very logic of all I have been saying for the improvement of blockheads, which is--that you should consult any man _but_ a medical man, since no other man has any obstinate prejudice of professional timidity.
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These had all perished: ox, cow, horse, mule, ass, sheep, or goat, not one survived--only the camels.
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-- Everybody knows that Homer compared the Telamonian Ajax, in a moment of heroic endurance, to an ass.
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But the Mahometan, too solemn, and also perhaps too stupid to catch the fanciful colors of things, absolutely by choice, under the Bagdad Caliphate, decorated a most favorite hero with the title of the _Ass_--which title is repeated with veneration to this day.
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The wild ass is one of the few animals which has the reputation of never flying from an enemy.]
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--It might be objected that the Oriental ass was often a superb animal; that it is spoken of prophetically as such; and that historically the Syrian ass is made known to us as having been used in the prosperous ages of Judea for the riding of princes.
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Kant was somewhat fastidious in matters of pronunciation; and this man had a great facility in catching the true sound of Latin words, the titles of books, and the names or designations of Kant's friends: not one of which accomplishments could Lampe, the most insufferable of blockheads, ever attain to.