Vulgar words in The Grammar of English Grammars (Page 1)
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"I have got an hussy of a maid, who is most craftily given to this."
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We have also some appellatives which correspond to each other, distinguishing the sexes by their distinct application to each: as, _bachelor, maid; beau, belle; boy, girl; bridegroom, bride; brother, sister; buck, doe; boar, sow; bull, cow; cock, hen; colt, filly; dog, bitch; drake, duck; earl, countess; father, mother; friar, nun; gander, goose; grandsire, grandam; hart, roe; horse, mare; husband, wife; king, queen; lad, lass; lord, lady; male, female; man, woman; master, mistress_; Mister, Missis; (Mr., Mrs.;) _milter, spawner; monk, nun; nephew, niece; papa, mamma; rake, jilt; ram, ewe; ruff, reeve; sire, dam; sir, madam; sloven, slut; son, daughter; stag, hind; steer, heifer; swain, nymph; uncle, aunt; wizard, witch; youth, damsel; young man, maiden_.
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13.--"The genitive case, in my opinion," says Dr. Ash, "might be much more properly formed by adding _s_, or when the pronunciation requires it, _es_, without an Apostrophe: as, _men, mens; Ox, Oxes; Horse, Horses; Ass, Asses._"--_Ash's Gram._, p. 23.
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"To write _Ox's, Ass's, Fox's_, and at the same time pronounce it _Oxes, Asses, Foxes_, is such a departure from the original formation, at least in writing, and such an inconsistent use of the Apostrophe, as cannot be equalled perhaps in any other language."
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He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem."
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Does not the Bible speak correctly of "_an ass's head_," sold at a great price?--_2 Kings_, vi, 25.
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He had some sort of recollection of his _father's_ being an ass"--_Collectanea Græca Minora, Notæ_, p. 7.
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--"But my chief affliction consisted in _this, that I was_ singled out," &c. The story of the mule is, "_He seemed to recollect on a sudden that his father was an ass_."
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"A greater instance of a man's being a blockhead."
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"And Samson said, With the jaw-bone of an ass, _heaps_ upon heaps, with the jaw of an ass, have I slain a thousand men."
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In the following couplet, there is an ellipsis of the infinitive; for the phrase, "fool with fool," means, "_for_ fool _to contend_ with fool," or, "for one fool to contend with an other:" "Blockheads with reason wicked wits abhor, But _fool with fool_ is barb'rous civil war."
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"There was a hunting match agreed upon _betwixt_ a lion, an ass, and a fox."--_L'Estrange_.
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12.--Of some impenetrable blockhead, Horace, telling how himself was vexed, says: "_O te_, Bollane, cerebri Felicem!
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"An ass will with his long ears fray The flies that tickle him away; But man delights to have _his ears Blown maggots in by_ flatterers."
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| =all th~e | s=aints ~a | -d=ore th~ee, C=ast~ing | d=own th~eir | g=old~en | cr=owns ~a | -r=ound th~e | gl=ass~y | s=ea; Ch=er~u | -b=im ~and | s=er~a | -ph=im [~_are_,] | f=all~ing | d=own b~e | -f=ore th~ee, _Wh~ich_ w=ert, | ~and =art, | ~and =ev | -~erm=ore | sh~alt b=e!
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'I s=aw | h~im =once | b~ef=ore As h~e | p=ass~ed | b=y th~e | d=oor, And ~a- | g=ain Th~e p=ave- | m~ent st=ones | r~es=ound As h~e | t=ott~ers | =o'er th~e | gr=ound W=ith h~is c=ane.'
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--_Id._ "I have got _a_ hussy of a maid, who is most craftily given to this."
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--_Butler cor._ "A greater instance of a _man_ being a blockhead."--_Spect.
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_N final_ preceded by _m_, is silent; as in _hymn, solemn, column, damn, condemn, autumn_.
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But the first two Esses in _possess_, or any of its regular derivatives, as well as the two in _dissolve_, or its proximate kin, sound like two Zees; and the soft or flat sound is commonly given to each _s_ in _hyssop, hussy, and hussar_.
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The relative _which_ is of all the genders, as every body ought to know, who has ever heard of the _horse which_ Alexander rode, of the _ass which_ spoke to Balaam, or of any of the _animals_ and _things_ which Noah had with him in the ark.