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Show Swearing. 1 It may be said without exaggeration) that swearing forms an important facr tor in the masculine vocabulary of" nearly every civilized nation. Greatf writers like Shakespeare knew this. JJ-collection JJ-collection of Shakespearean oaths an epithets with their etymology wonlfi fill a volume. Shakesneara that they were inseparable from a faitlfr fal portrayal of virile human charatff-ter; charatff-ter; that no truthful picture of conlr mon life would be possible without tig9 use of that strong vehement languagl3 in which men express their emotional Bat conventionality forbids to nineteenth nine-teenth century writers what the Elizabethan Eliza-bethan age not only tolerated, but aMm proved. Philadelphia Press. 1 |