Vulgar words in Irish Wit and Humor - Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell (Page 1)
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Puff'd up with pride and insolence, Without a grain of common sense, See with what consequence he stalks, With what pomposity he talks; See how the gaping crowd admire The stupid blockhead and the liar.
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'Not eleven inches, I am sure, you blockhead!
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* * * * * "I remember," said O'Connell, "being counsel at a special commission in Kerry against a Mr. S----, and having occasion to press him somewhat hard in my speech, he jumped up in the court, and called me 'a purse-proud blockhead.'
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I said to him, 'In the first place I have got no purse to be proud of; and, secondly, if I be a blockhead, it is better for you, as I am counsel against you.