Vulgar words in The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867. (Page 1)
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The young man had not made love to her directly, but he had interested her in herself by a delicate and tender flattery of manner, and so set her fancies working that she was taken with him as never before, and wishing that the Parsonage had been a mile farther from The Poplars.
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I don't know whether that man had been making love to you or not.
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All contact with the Papacy is contact with death, carrying the taint of its corruption over rising Italy, and educating her masses in falsehood,--not because cardinals, bishops, and monks traded in indulgences three centuries ago,--not because this or that Pope trafficked in cowardly concessions to princes, or in the matrimony of his own bastards with the bastards of dukes, petty tyrants, or kings, in order to obtain some patch of territory or temporal dominion,--not because they have governed and persecuted men according to their arbitrary will; but because they _cannot_ do other, even if they would.
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And they see not that they thus confirm that servile submission to the _accomplished fact_, that doctrine of _opportunity_, that bastard Machiavellism, that worship of temporary interests, and that indifference to every great idea, which find expression in our country at the present day in the betrayal of national duty by our higher classes, and in the stupid resignation of our masses.