Vulgar words in The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. - A Judge of the High Court of Justice (Page 1)

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buffoon x 3
damaged goods x 1
make love x 1
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Bundle's reputation was so far damaged that his theology was thought too bad for Gloucester, and, like other pieces of damaged goods, he was quartered upon the Irish Church.

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He would be met pounding along steadily, carrying, often twirling, a 'very big stick,' which now and then came down with a blow--upon the knuckles, I take it, of some imaginary blockhead on the other side--muttering to himself, 'immersed in thought and with a fierce expression of concentrated study.'

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The satire upon individuals may be all very well in its place, but a man, he said, has no business to set up as the 'regenerator of society' because he is its most 'distinguished buffoon.'

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He was not picking his words, and 'buffoon' is certainly an injudicious phrase; but the sentiment which it expressed was so characteristic and deeply rooted that I must dwell a little upon its manifestation at this time.

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The war between the Saturday reviewers and their antagonists was carried on with a frequent use of the nicknames 'prig' and 'cynic' upon one side, and 'buffoon' and 'sentimentalist' upon the other.

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'I do not think,' replies Fitzjames, 'that the state ought to stand bandying compliments with pimps.'

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A man does more good, as a rule, by working for himself and his family, than by acting like a 'moral Don Quixote,[157] who is capable of making love for men in general the ground of all sorts of violence against men in particular.'

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