Vulgar words in Advice to Young Men - And (Incidentally) to Young Women in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life. In a Series of Letters, Addressed to a Youth, a Bachelor, a Lover, a Husband, a Father, a Citizen, or a Subject. (Page 1)
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These men ought to be called _literary pimps_: they ought to be held in universal abhorrence, and never spoken of but with execration.
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As the malignity of the devil would have it, we were kept abroad _two years longer_ than our time, Mr. PITT (England not being so tame then as she is now) having knocked up a dust with Spain about Nootka Sound.
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It is an old saying, 'Praise the child, and you make love to the mother;' and it is surprising how far this will go.
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our women may talk of 'small-clothes' as long as they please; they may blush to scarlet at hearing animals designated by their sexual appellations; it may, to give the world a proof of our excessive modesty and delicacy, even pass a law (indeed we have done it) to punish 'an _exposure of the person_'; but as long as our streets swarm with prostitutes, our asylums and private houses with bastards; as long as we have _man_-operators in the delicate cases alluded to, and as long as the exhibiting of the dead body of a virtuous female before an audience of men shall not be punished by the law, and even with death; as long as we shall appear to be satisfied in this state of things, it becomes us, at any rate, to be silent about purity of mind, improvement of manners, and an increase of refinement and _delicacy_.
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And is she, from love of ease or of pleasure or of any thing else, to neglect this duty; is she to commit her daughters to the care of persons, with whose manners and morals it is impossible for her to be thoroughly acquainted; is she to send them into the promiscuous society of girls, who belong to nobody knows whom, and come from nobody knows whither, and some of whom, for aught she can know to the contrary, may have been corrupted before, and sent thither to be hidden from their former circle; is she to send her daughters to be shut up within walls, the bare sight of which awaken the idea of intrigue and invite to seduction and surrender; is she to leave the health of her daughters to chance, to shut them up with a motley bevy of strangers, some of whom, as is _frequently_ the case, are proclaimed _bastards_, by the undeniable testimony given by the _colour of their skin_; is she to do all this, and still put forward pretensions to the authority and the affection due to a _mother_!
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Here are two young men put before us, both sons of the same mother; the one a _bastard_ (and by a parson too), the other a _legitimate child_; the former wild, disobedient, and squandering; the latter steady, sober, obedient, and frugal; the former every thing that is frank and generous in his nature, the latter a greedy hypocrite; the former rewarded with the most beautiful and virtuous of women and a double estate, the latter punished by being made an outcast.