Vulgar words in Thomas Carlyle (Page 1)
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The following singular passage, the style of which suggests an imitation of Sterne, is the acme of unconscious self-satire:-- You are infinitely unjust to Blockheads, as they are called.
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Kildare Railway: big blockhead sitting with his dirty feet on seat opposite, not stirring them for one who wanted to sit there.
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Proceeding northward, he spent three weeks with his mother, then in her eighty-fourth year and at last growing feeble; a quiet time only disturbed by indignation at "one ass whom I heard the bray of in some Glasgow newspaper," comparing "our grand hater of shams" to Father Gavazzi.
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'You impertinent blasphemous blockhead!' this was sticking in my throat: better to retire without bringing it out."
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I will beat your brains out first!"