Category: History - Other
At the Scufflers' Club--A stranger at the gates--A somnolent post-office--The best men in London--A sing-song--"Damn their eyes!"--"Qui s'excuse s'accuse"--The philosophy of swearing--A retrospect--"When that I was and a little tiny boy" 1
We trust that we have travelled thus far on our journey without wounding the susceptibilities of any of our readers, and that thus it may continue to the not distant end. In all...
17. CHAPTER VIII."_Lackwit._ Now do I want some two or three good oaths to express my meaning withall. An they would but learn me to swear and take tobacco! 'tis all I desire."--'_A fine Compani...
16. CHAPTER VII.Written during the fever of South Sea speculation, the skit of Jonathan Swift, known as the "Bank of Swearing," was one exceedingly felicitous and well-timed. We are amused even...
12. CHAPTER III."If ever I should betake myself to swearing," says Sir John Hazlewood in the play, "I shall give very little concern to the fashion of the oath. Odd's bodikins will do well enou...
10. CHAPTER I.It lay in the heart of Bohemia. It was approached through a labyrinth of streets that grew denser and darker as one neared the precincts of the club. Could any of the brother Sc...
14. CHAPTER V.We may now turn our backs upon the luxuriant and fanciful swearing of the ancient world and pursue our researches into one other division of the subject that gives rise to more...
13. CHAPTER IV.We have already adverted to that foreign and slanderous tradition which lays all the grosser sins of vituperation at the Englishman's door. It has been seen how the "damns" and...
15. CHAPTER VI.In the study of antiquity there are steep and irregular by-paths that defy the traveller every step that he pursues them. It is in threading these tortuous windings that many a...
11. CHAPTER II."Now don't let us give ourselves a parcel of airs and pretend that the oaths we make free with in this land of liberty of ours are our own; and because we have the spirit to swe...
8. CHAPTER VIII.A saviour of society--Joseph Addison--A tradesman of the last century--A clerical apologist--Swearing in earnest and at play--An explanation offered--Blue laws of Connecticut--...
9. CHAPTER IX.Utilitarian view of swearing--One touch of nature--The Shandean method--Code of Ernulphus--"Sacre froc d'Habacuc"-- Mr. William Barley--Philosophy of imprecation--"Bloody"--In t...
2. CHAPTER II.The son of discord--Origin of swearing--Decline of lying as an art--Growth of swearing as a science--The military oath-- Religious oath--John the Marshall--Fustian oaths--Legisl...
1. CHAPTER I.At the Scufflers' Club--A stranger at the gates--A somnolent post-office--The best men in London--A sing-song--"Damn their eyes!"--"Qui s'excuse s'accuse"--The philosophy of swe...
3. CHAPTER III."Odd's bodikins"--In Socrates' thinking-shop--The British shibboleth--Don Juan--Beaumarchais--Parny--Joan of Arc a satirist of swearing--La Hire--Corbleu et Cie.--"Jarnicoton"--...
6. CHAPTER VI.The genius of antiquity--A study in dust and cobwebs--The why and the wherefore of swearing--A swearing _corps d'elite_-- "Swear me, Kate, like a lady"--The freemasonry of swear...
5. CHAPTER V.Mediaeval swearing--The monastic teaching--Cleric and lay-- Robert Crowley--Mystery of the five wounds--"God's bread!"--In a Tuscan studio--Stephen Hawes--Thomas Becon--'Miroir...
7. CHAPTER VII.A bank of swearing--Legislation at work--"The sweirer's and the Devill"--Aberdeen town records--Across the border--Before the footlights--'Magnetic Lady'--The wits--Colman the y...
4. CHAPTER IV.Why has a dog a bad name?--Canine swearing--"Jarnichien!"--The cast of the die--Dog oath of Socrates--A nation of swearers-- Aristophanes--The Rhodian cabbage--"Mehercule"--'Shi...