Vulgar words in The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12) (Page 1)
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It is said that nothing is proof against gold,--that the strongest tower will not be impregnable, if Jupiter makes love in a golden shower.
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This Jupiter commences making love; but he does not come to the ladies with gold for their persons, he comes to their persons for their gold.
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You would imagine that they were making love, and that you heard the voice of the turtle in the land.
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It is possible she might wish to depose her legitimate son, her only legitimate son, and to depose him for the sake of a bastard son of her husband's,--to exalt him at the expense of the former, and to exalt, of course, the mother of that bastard at her own expense, and to her own wrong.
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You will find that they considered her as a great agent and instrument of all the corruption there; and that this whole transaction, by which the bastard son of Munny Begum was brought forward to the prejudice of the legitimate son of the Nabob, was considered to be, what it upon the very face of it speaks itself to be, corrupt and scandalous.
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They state to you this horrible and venal transaction, by which the government was set to sale, by which a bastard son was elevated to the wrong of the natural and legitimate heir, and in which a prostitute, his mother, was put in the place of the honorable and legitimate mother of the representative of the family.
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For though neither the young Nabob nor his mother ought to have been raised to the stations in which they were placed, and were placed there for the purpose of facilitating the receipt of bribes, yet the order of Nature was preserved, and the mother was made the guardian of her own son: for though she was a prostitute and he a bastard, yet still she was a mother and he a son; and both Nature and legitimate disposition with regard to the guardianship of a son went together.
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This, then, is the state in which we leave the two sentimental lovers,--the one consoling herself with brandy, the other wheedling and whining; and, as Swift describes the progress of an intrigue in some respects similar, which he calls "The Progress of Love," whereas this is the Progress of Sentiment, "They keep at Staines the Old Blue Boar, Are cat and dog, and rogue and whore."
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the greatest blockhead, the most ignorant, miserable wretch, a person without either virtue or talents, has nothing to do but to order a clerk to strike a pen through such an account, and then to make a merit of it to you.
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137. its sublime descriptions of the war-horse, the wild ass, and the unicorn and leviathan, i.