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The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 (of 10)

Note 356 — Terminal Essay. (continued 3)

Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2

The Spectator (No. 119) complains of an “infamous piece of good breeding,” because “men of the town, and particularly those who have been polished in France, make use of the most coarse and uncivilised words in our language and utter themselves often in such a manner as a clown would blush to hear.”

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