Vulgar words in Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 2 - Great Britain and Ireland, Part 2 (Page 1)
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Great people of yore, kings and queens, buffoons and grave ambassadors, played their stately farce for centuries in Holyrood.
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A few sheep of a dwarf breed crop the scanty herbage on the slopes; sometimes the winter is so severe that they die; in the distance we perceive a shaggy ox, with savage eyes, the size of a small ass.
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As for a man coming from his desk in London or Dublin and seeing "the whole lakes in a day," he is an ass for his pains; a child doing sums in addition might as well read the whole multiplication table, and fancy he had it by heart.