Vulgar words in Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy (Page 1)
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So with 'obstinacy' (_ob-sto_), which, by the way, the phrenologists represent, literally enough, by an ass in a position which assuredly Webster had in his mind when he wrote his definition of this word; thus: ... '_in a fixedness in opinion or resolution that cannot be shaken at all, or without great difficulty_.'
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Having learned, though in an illegitimate way, that the friend of PAN, the great king of the golden touch, had ass's ears, he _must_ tell it again, though in murmurs and whispers: 'Qui cum ne prodere visum Dedecus auderet, cupiens efferre sub auras, Nec posset reticere tamen, secedit, humumque Effodit: et domini quales aspexerit aures, Vox refert parva; terræque immurmurat haustæ.