Penny Dreadfuls, 1781 · page 46 of 120
A Month's Tour, &c. — page 46: what you’re looking at
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This is a page of running prose from what appears to be a travel narrative titled "A Month's Tour" (page 46). The text describes observations about Irish people encountered during the author's excursion, specifically commenting on their alleged propensity for swearing. The author recounts an anecdote about a landlord at Lipzlip whose ordinary speech consisted primarily of oaths, and notes that the Irish, unlike people in other countries, freely intermix profanities with everyday conversation rather than reserving them for moments of indignation. The passage employs period-appropriate spelling conventions (e.g., "courfe," "confifted").
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46 A MONTH’ TOUR their native flothfulnefs ; as it is, they are ‘Rikely to improve in it. In the courfe of this excurfion,,we had am opportunity. of proving the truth of ano- ther obfervation not much to the credit of the Irifh, that they are great fwearers, ~ Qur landlord at Lipzlip was a fingular inftance of this: his. ordinary language confifted of little elfe but oaths.. They do. not, like other countries, confine the ufe. of them to exprefs indignation, but inter- mix their common: difcourfe with them, even in their cooleft moments, and utter. the moft horrid imprecations. when they. affert a thing with. any degree of vehe- mence. | _ 4 \ This, comicbooks.com