“Ha! this fellow is worse than me; what, does he swear with pen and ink?”—The Tatler, No. 13.
LONDON:
J. C. NIMMO AND BAIN,
14, KING WILLIAM STREET, STRAND, W.C.
1884.
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| CHAPTER I. | |
| At the Scufflers’ Club—A stranger at the gates—A somnolent post-office—The bestmen in London—A sing-song—“Damn their eyes!”—“Qui s’excuses’accuse”—The philosophy of swearing—A retrospect—“Whenthat I was and a little tiny boy” | 1 |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| The son of discord—Origin of swearing—Decline of lying as an art—Growth of swearing asa science—The military oath—Religious oath—John the Marshall—Fustian oaths—Legislationbegins—“Moralité des Blasphémateurs”—George Fox and Margaret Fell—Oathof the King-Maker—Oath of the Bear-garden | 22 |
| CHAPTER III. | |
| “Odd’s bodikins”—In Socrates’ thinking-shop—The Britishshibboleth—Don Juan—Beaumarchais—Parny—Joan of Arc a satirist of swearing—LaHire—Corbleu et Cie.—“Jarnicoton”—“Μὰ τὸν”—‘Juronsde Cadillac’—Little King Goddam—Sir John Harrington—‘Amendsfor Ladies’—“Don’t care a damn” | 38 |
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| CHAPTER IV. | |
| Why has a dog a bad name?—Canine swearing—“Jarnichien!”—The cast of thedie—Dog oath of Socrates—A nation of swearers—Aristophanes—The Rhodiancabbage—“Mehercule”—‘Ship of Fools’—Amenitiesof Roman swearing | 60 |
| CHAPTER V. | |
| Mediæval swearing—The monastic teaching—Cleric and lay—Robert Crowley—Mysteryof the five wounds—“God’s bread!”—In a Tuscan studio—Stephen Hawes—ThomasBecon—‘Miroir du Monde’—‘Handlyng Sinne’—Chaucer’soaths—Plantagenet swearing—“Ventre Saint Gris”—A royalscapegrace—“Bismillah!” | 77 |
| CHAPTER VI. | |
| The genius of antiquity—A study in dust and cobwebs—The why and the wherefore ofswearing—A swearing corps d’élite—“Swear me, Kate, like alady”—The freemasonry of swearing—Lord Thurlow—Sir ThomasMaitland—“By jingo!” | 99 |
| CHAPTER VII. | |
| ... BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN!Sitemize Üyelik ÜCRETSİZDİR! |