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  • Title: 227
  • Author(s): Baron Ferdinand De RothChild
  • Date of creation: 1890
  • Extent: 2pp
  • Material: Paper
  • Physical Location: Waddesdon Manor

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( 28 ) throughout the kingdom. I am not acquainted with the exact number of such societies, but I know that London alone possesses eighteen, without counting their many branches and ramifications. SwEARING.—Intemperance of language had long been as prevalent as intemperance in drink. Up to a very recent date persons of all classes and all ranks rarely spoke without making use of expressions which are now condemned as offensive. But the change is of recent occurrence. Queen Eliza- beth used language on public occasions which only the lowest character would now think of em- ploying. Bad language was never more general than at the end of last century and the beginning of this. To this very day Frenchmen call English- men ‘Goddams’—this being the expression they most frequently hear from our compatriots. At the 3attle of Waterloo, at which, I need not tell you, the Duke of Wellington was in command of the British Army, one of his generals was the Earl of Uxbridge, afterwards Marquis of Anglesea. A can- non-ball struck the Earl, who was standing next the Duke, whereupon he turned round and exclaimed, ‘By God, Duke, Pve lost my lez!’ To which the Duke replied, calmly, ‘By God, Sir, have you really?’ Under the circumstances, perhaps the Duke and the ee
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