Vulgar words in In the Name of the Bodleian and Other Essays (Page 1)

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LORD CHESTERFIELD 'Buy good books and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not blockheads.'

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The good Protestant conviction that the Pope is both Antichrist and the Whore of Babylon is a more effectual preservative against Popery than all the solid and unanswerable arguments of Chillingworth.'

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Then there are those who can never get rid of the impression that Hannah More 'fagged' her four sisters mercilessly; but who can tell?

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Some people like being fagged.

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