Vulgar words in The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 64, February, 1863 (Page 1)
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no one can say; and his daughters had in part to depend upon that bastard slip of the Red-Rose line, Henry VII., for the means to enable them to live as gentlewomen,--all but the eldest, whom Henry took to wife as a point of policy, which her father would have considered the greatest misfortune of all those that befell his offspring.
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He was fond of his numerous bastards, and, like an affectionate royal father, provided handsomely for them at the public-expense.
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Proverbial axioms flourish copiously in the idiomatic ground and vernacular climate of unlearned, undisciplined, unreflective minds, as thistles on the highway where every ass may gather them.