Vulgar words in The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I (Page 1)
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America has faded considerably into the background of late: indeed, to say truth, whenever I think of myself in America, it is as in the Backwoods, with a rifle in my hand, God's sky over my head, and this accursed Lazar-house of quacks and blockheads, 'and sin and misery (now near a head) lying all behind me forevermore.
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When I get to London, I will consult some of the blockheads with the Book in my hand: if we do want Two Hundred copies, you can give us them with a trifling loss.
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Come if you dare; I said there was a room, house-room and heart-room, constantly waiting you here, and you shall see blockheads by the million.
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That he is a better Christian, with his "bastard Christianity," than the most of us shovel-hatted?
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I rode over Surrey,-- with a leather valise behind me and a mackintosh before; very singular to see: over Sussex, down to Pevensey where the Norman Bastard landed; I saw Julius Hare (whose _Guesses at Truth_ you perhaps know), saw Saint Dunstan's stithy and hammer, at Mayfield, and the very tongs with which he took the Devil by the nose;--finally I got home again, a right wearied man; sent my horse off to be sold, as I say; and finished the writing of my Lectures on Heroes.