Vulgar words in The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12) (Page 1)
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The preservation of this faith is of more consequence than the duties on _red lead_, or _white lead_, or on broken _glass_, or _atlas-ordinary_, or _demy-fine_, or _blue-royal_, or _bastard_, or _fools cap_, which you have given up, or the three-pence on tea which you retained.
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I do not mean that little, selfish, pitiful, bastard thing which sometimes goes by the name of a family in which it is not legitimate and to which it is a disgrace;--I mean even that public and enlarged prudence, which, apprehensive of being disabled from rendering acceptable services to the world, withholds itself from those that are invidious.
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It must, indeed, be admitted that many of the nobility are as perfectly willing to act the part of flatterers, tale-bearers, parasites, pimps, and buffoons, as any of the lowest and vilest of mankind can possibly be.