Vulgar words in The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 (Page 1)

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It is a little hard to send a man preaching to Judaea, and leave the rest of the world--Negers and what not--_dark_ as their complexions, without a ray of light for so many years to lead them on high; and who will believe that God will damn men for not knowing what they were never taught?

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Now, neighbours, have a good caution that this Master Mug does not cajole you; he is a damn'd palavering fellow."

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I do not believe in any revealed religion, because no religion is revealed: and if it pleases the Church to damn me for not allowing a _nonentity_, I throw myself on the mercy of the "_Great First Cause, least understood_," who must do what is most proper; though I conceive He never made anything to be tortured in another life, whatever it may in this.

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All damn'd, though yet alive."

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When Thurlow this damn'd nonsense sent, (I hope I am not violent), Nor men nor gods knew what he meant.

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P. S.--The Stael last night attacked me most furiously--said that I had "no right to make love--that I had used----barbarously--that I had no feeling, and was totally _in_sensible to _la belle passion_, and _had_ been all my life."

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Byron uses the word 'scurra', which generally means a "parasite," in its other sense of a "buffoon."

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He died young, and when his father told Byron of the child's death, the godfather "almost chuckled with joy or irony," and said, "Well, I cautioned you, and told you that my name would almost damn any thing or creature."

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Nay, I almost wish him success against all countries but this,--were it only to choke the 'Morning Post', and his undutiful father-in-law, with that rebellious bastard of Scandinavian adoption, Bernadotte.

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Eldon turned round, and, catching my eye, immediately said to a peer (who had come to him for a few minutes on the Woolsack, as is the custom of his friends), 'Damn them!

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I remember, too, our walks, and the happiness of sitting by Mary, in the children's apartment, at their house not far from the Plain-stanes at Aberdeen, while her lesser sister Helen played with the doll, and we sat gravely making love, in our way.

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Murray has had a letter from his brother bibliopole of Edinburgh, who says, "he is lucky in having such a _poet_"--something as if one was a packhorse, or "ass, or any thing that is his;" or, like Mrs. Packwood, [1] who replied to some inquiry after the Odes on Razors,--"Laws, sir, we keeps a poet."

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So _dull_ in youth, so _drivelling_ in age, _His_ scenes alone had damn'd our sinking stage.

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