Vulgar words in The Greville Memoirs - A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. III (Page 1)
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Kemp told me he had heard that Conroy (who is a ridiculous fellow, a compound of 'Great Hussy' and the Chamberlain of the Princess of Navarre[2]) had said, 'that as Her Royal Highness's _confidential adviser_, he could not recommend her to give way on this point.'
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If he was not such an ass that nobody does anything but laugh at what he says, this would be very important.
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Leslie began with a grave complaint on the subject, which Jeffrey interrupted with 'O damn the North Pole.'
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He told him what he had been to Jeffrey about, and that he had in a very unpleasant way said, 'Damn the North Pole.'
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He spends his time in making love to Mrs. P---- whom he takes to the House of Commons to hear speeches which he does not make, and where he exhibits his conquest, and certainly it is the best of his exploits, but what a successor of Canning, whom by the way he affects to imitate.
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One of the lawyers said that in the course of the investigations which this case had occasioned it had been discovered (though not in a way which admitted of any proofs being adduced and any measures adopted upon it) that there was a woman whose trade was to get rid of bastard children, either by procuring abortions or destroying them when born, and that she had a regular price for either operation.
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The King was quite knocked up and easily satisfied, for he neither desired nor could have understood any explanations.
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The Chancellor went down, and, in presence of the ladies, attired in his golden robes (and especially before Mrs. P., to whom he makes love), gave a judgment in some case in which a picture of Nell Gwynne was concerned, and he was very proud of the _delicacy_ of his judgment.
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Young said, 'Why, damn it, such a position never was occupied by any Greek or Roman, and, if it only lasts two months, it is well worth while to have been Prime Minister of England.'
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Sheil said, 'The difficulty is how to deal with a bully and a buffoon,' and as they have succumbed to and bargained with the one, now they are going to truckle to the other; there is not one of them who has scrupled to express his opinion of Brougham, but let us see if he really does come in or much indignation may be thrown away.
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[4] [4] [O'Connell had called Lord Alvanley a 'bloated buffoon,' and as usual took refuge in his vow never to fight another duel.
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'God damn it!' rejoined the other King; 'why don't you drink wine?
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was a man who, coming to the throne at the mature age of sixty-five, was so excited by the exaltation, that he nearly went mad, and distinguished himself by a thousand extravagances of language and conduct, to the alarm or amusement of all who witnessed his strange freaks; and though he was shortly afterwards sobered down into more becoming habits, he always continued to be something of a blackguard and something more of a buffoon.