Vulgar words in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 (Page 1)

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blockhead x 2
buffoon x 1
god damn x 1
            

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A buffoon expression has this advantage, it is unanswerable.

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These being summoned to yield to mercy, refused; whereupon I ordered the steeple of St Peter's church to be fired, when one of them was heard to say in the midst of the flames, 'God damn me, God confound me!

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"You'll but get a judge's wig, Blockheads may be conscience-panged, Knaves are pensioned, but, _not_ hanged!"

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You are not the blockhead we take you for after all; but you delight to see your public men in motley, and the rogues will fool you to the top of your bent, till it is your pleasure to put down the show.

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