Vulgar words in A Dialogue Between Dean Swift and Tho. Prior, Esq. - In the Isles of St. Patrick's Church, Dublin, On that - Memorable Day, October 9th, 1753 (Page 1)
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All the Advantages we have thro' the encrease of our Inhabitants, is, that for want of being employ'd, they furnish us with Thieves, Pilferers and Sharpers, private Wenches, and common Whores, Cheats and Robbers, Pickpockets, Gamesters, Tinkers and Vagabonds.
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This is a true Notion of a Refugee, and I think such People come over fast enough without such ostentatious Proclamations to give them new Encouragements: My Conduct always took a different Turn, and if I had liv'd a little longer, I had wrote a Treatise to prove _Ireland_, the most inhospitable and barbarous of all habitable Islands, and the very Piss-pot of the Western World.
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A pretty Defence truly, and yet as this was the Excuse of _Balaam_'s Ass to his Master, one wou'd think none but an Ass wou'd plead it, and I will venture to say, they had better Change it for a solemn Vow, never to be guilty of such a Folly again.