# Lars Porsena

Author: Graves, Robert, 1895-1985

Genre: Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75066

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Lars+Porsena+Graves&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Of recent years in England there has been a noticeable decline of swearing and foul language, and this, except at centres of industrial depression, shows every sign of continuing until a new shock to our national nervous system, a European war on a large scale or widespread revolutionary disturbances at home, may (or may not) revive the habit of swearing, simultaneously with that of praying. While, therefore, obscene and blasphemous tongues are temporarily idle, it would be well to inquire intelligently into the nature and necessity of their employment: a ticklish theme and one seldom publicly treated except in comminations from orthodox pulpits. It is to be hoped that this essay will ste...

## Chapters

- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lars-porsena-75066/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lars-porsena-75066/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lars-porsena-75066/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/lars-porsena-75066/chapters/4/index.md)