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It's all one and the same; for every man who curses the cloth would curse the king if he durst; so for matter o' that, it's all one and the same thing." "Excuse me there, Mr Serjeant," quoth Partridge, "that's a non sequitur." "None of your outlandish linguo," answered the serjeant, leaping from his seat; "I will not sit still and hear the cloth abused." "You mistake me, friend," cries Partridge.
Greenland Greenland should always be the scene of the tramontane negociation." "I thank Heaven," cries the squire, "I don't understand you now. You are got to your Hanoverian linguo. However, I'll shew you I scorn to be behind-hand in civility with you; and as you are not angry for what I have said, so I am not angry for what you have said.
There is a letter or two of our alphabet which the Indians never had in theirs; though there were enough of the dog in their temper, there can scarce be found an R in their language, . . . but, if their alphabet be short, I am sure the words composed of it are long enough to tire the patience of any scholar in the world; they are Sesquipedalia verba, of which their linguo is composed.
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