Vulgar words in The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 44, June, 1861 Creator (Page 1)
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You may possibly find, if you endeavor to instil such belief into minds of but moderate cultivation, that your arguments will be met less by force of reason than by roaring of voice and excitement of manner; you may find that the person you address will endeavor to change the issue you are arguing, to other issues, wholly irrelevant, touching your own antecedents, character, or even personal appearance; and you may afterwards be informed by good-natured friends, that the upshot of your discussion had been to leave on the mind of your acquaintance the firm conviction that you yourself are intellectually a blockhead and morally a villain.
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Did you ever, my reader, chance upon such a spectacle as this: a very commonplace man, and even a very great blockhead, standing in a drawing-room where a large party of people is assembled, with a grin of self-complacent superiority upon his unmeaning face?
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I have seen this expression on the face of one or two of the greatest blockheads I ever knew.
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Diligently instil into a boy that he is a stupid, idle, bad-hearted blockhead, and you are very likely to make him all _that_.
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If the rural population did not give us a bastard imitation of Lexington and Concord, as we tried to gain Washington, all Pluguglydom would treat us _à la_ Plugugly somewhere near the junction of the Annapolis and Baltimore and Washington Railroad.