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Book Fornication Under Carnal Knowledge

Download or read book Fornication Under Carnal Knowledge written by K. Pressley and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-03-31 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These are my ideas, affirmations, dreams, visions, and opinions. I am detailing how you can begin to change yourself. The process of changing self is a journey I have been on for a long time and one worth continuing. I am asking that you join me.

Book Swearing

Download or read book Swearing written by Geoffrey Hughes and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1998-03-26 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the history of swearing from ancient Anglo-Saxon traditions and those of the Middle Ages, through Shakespeare, the Enlightenment and the Victorians, to the Lady Chatterley trial and various current trends, Geoffrey Hughes explores a fascinating, little discussed yet irrespressible part of our linguistic heritage. This second edition contains a Postscript updating various contemporary developments, such as the growth of Political Correctness.

Book Carnal Knowledge

    Book Details:
  • Author : Martin Ingram
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2017-03-23
  • ISBN : 1107179874
  • Pages : 483 pages

Download or read book Carnal Knowledge written by Martin Ingram and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-23 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How was the law used to control sex in Tudor England? What were the differences between secular and religious practice? This major study, based on a wide range of church and secular court archives, explores sexual regulation in London and provincial England before, during and immediately after the Reformation.

Book The F Word

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jesse Sheidlower
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2009-09-04
  • ISBN : 0199751552
  • Pages : 322 pages

Download or read book The F Word written by Jesse Sheidlower and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-09-04 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all know what frak, popularized by television's cult hit Battlestar Galactica, really means. But what about feck? Or ferkin? Or foul--as in FUBAR, or "Fouled Up Beyond All Recognition"? In a thoroughly updated edition of The F-Word, Jesse Sheidlower offers a rich, revealing look at the f-bomb and its illimitable uses. Since the fifteenth century, no other word has been adapted, interpreted, euphemized, censored, and shouted with as much ardor or force; imagine Dick Cheney telling Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy to "go damn himself" on the Senate floor--it doesn't have quite the same impact as what was really said. Sheidlower cites this and other notorious examples throughout history, from the satiric sixteenth-century poetry of James Cranstoun to the bawdy parodies of Lord Rochester in the seventeenth century, to more recent uses by Ernest Hemingway, Jack Kerouac, Ann Sexton, Norman Mailer, Liz Phair, Anthony Bourdain, Junot Diaz, Jenna Jameson, Amy Winehouse, Jon Stewart, and Bono (whose use of the word at the Grammys nearly got him fined by the FCC). Collectively, these references and the more than one hundred new entries they illustrate double the size of The F-Word since its previous edition. Thousands of added quotations come from newly available electronic databases and the resources of the OED, expanding the range of quotations to cover British, Canadian, Australian, New Zealand, Irish, and South African uses in addition to American ones. Thus we learn why a fugly must hone his or her sense of humor, why Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau muttered "fuddle duddle" in the Commons, and why Fanny Adams is so sweet. A fascinating introductory essay explores the word's history, reputation, and changing popularity over time. and a new Foreword by comedian, actor, and author Lewis Black offers readers a smart and entertaining take on the book and its subject matter. Oxford dictionaries have won renown for their expansive, historical approach to words and their etymologies. The F-Word offers all that and more in an entertaining and informative look at a word that, while now largely accepted as an integral part of the English language, still confounds, provokes, and scandalizes.

Book Fuck

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  • Author : Christopher Fairman
  • Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
  • Release : 2009-09-01
  • ISBN : 140222320X
  • Pages : 274 pages

Download or read book Fuck written by Christopher Fairman and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: @$#*%! Our most taboo word and how the law keeps it forbidden. This entertaining read is about the word "fuck", the law, and the taboo. Whether you shout it out in the street or whisper it in the bedroom, deliberately plan a protest, or spontaneously blurt it out, if you say "fuck," someone wants to silence you, either with a dirty look across the room or by making a rule that you cannot say the word. When it's the government trying to cleanse your language, though, you should worry. Words are ideas. If the government controls the words we use, it can control what we think. To protect this liberty, we must first understand why the law's treatment of "fuck" puts that freedom at risk. This book examines the law surrounding the word and reveals both inconsistencies in its treatment and tension with other identifiable legal rights that the law simply doesn't answer. The power of taboo provides the framework to understand these uncertainties. It also explains why attempts to curtail the use of "fuck" through law are doomed to fail. Fundamentally, it persists because it is taboo; not in spite of it.

Book Origins of the Specious

Download or read book Origins of the Specious written by Patricia T. O'Conner and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2010-08-24 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you cringe when a talking head pronounces “niche” as NITCH? Do you get bent out of shape when your teenager begins a sentence with “and”? Do you think British spellings are more “civilised” than the American versions? If you answered yes to any of those questions, you’re myth-informed. In Origins of the Specious, word mavens Patricia T. O’Conner and Stewart Kellerman reveal why some of grammar’s best-known “rules” aren’t—and never were—rules at all. This playfully witty, rigorously researched book sets the record straight about bogus word origins, politically correct fictions, phony français, fake acronyms, and more. Here are some shockers: “They” was once commonly used for both singular and plural, much the way “you” is today. And an eighteenth-century female grammarian, of all people, is largely responsible for the all-purpose “he.” From the Queen’s English to street slang, this eye-opening romp will be the toast of grammarphiles and the salvation of grammarphobes. Take our word for it.

Book Laws Enacted in the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

Download or read book Laws Enacted in the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania written by Pennsylvania. Laws, statutes, etc and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Against Jovinianus

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  • Author : St. Jerome
  • Publisher : Dalcassian Publishing Company
  • Release : 2019-12-07
  • ISBN : 1987022882
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Against Jovinianus written by St. Jerome and published by Dalcassian Publishing Company. This book was released on 2019-12-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jovinianus, about whom little more is known than what is to be found in Jerome's treatise, published a Latin treatise outlining several opinions: That a virgin is no better, as such, than a wife in the sight of God. Abstinence from food is no better than a thankful partaking of food. A person baptized with the Spirit as well as with water cannot sin. All sins are equal. There is but one grade of punishment and one of reward in the future state. In addition to this, he held the birth of Jesus Christ to have been by a "true parturition," and was thus refuting the orthodoxy of the time, according to which, the infant Jesus passed through the walls of the womb as his Resurrection body afterwards did, out of the tomb or through closed doors.

Book Laws of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Passed at the Session

Download or read book Laws of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Passed at the Session written by Pennsylvania and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Appropriation acts before 1911 published in the Laws of the General Assembly; 1911- in a separate volume.

Book Ars Erotica

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard Shusterman
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2021-03-25
  • ISBN : 1107004764
  • Pages : 437 pages

Download or read book Ars Erotica written by Richard Shusterman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-25 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on theories of lovemaking from ancient Asian and Western cultures, this book provides a new aesthetics of erotic love.

Book Filthy English

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  • Author : Peter Silverton
  • Publisher : Portobello Books
  • Release : 2011-11-03
  • ISBN : 1846274524
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book Filthy English written by Peter Silverton and published by Portobello Books. This book was released on 2011-11-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Sex Pistols swore live on tea-time telly in 1976, there was outrage across Britain. Headlines screamed. Christians marched. TVs were kicked in. Thirty years on, all those words are media-mainstream - bandied about with impunity on TV and in the papers. This is the story of our bad language and its three-decade journey from the fringes of decency to the working centre of a more linguistically liberal nation. Silverton takes a clear, comprehensive and witty look at swearing and the impact of its new acceptability on our language, our manners and our society. He considers how we have become more openly emotional, yet more wary about insulting others. And how it's seemingly become alright to say **** and **** but not ****** or ****. This is the story of that cultural revolution, written by one who was there at the start, proudly striking some of the first blows in the long struggle for the right to reclaim filthy English and use it.

Book Making All Things New

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  • Author : David Powlison
  • Publisher : Crossway
  • Release : 2017-08-15
  • ISBN : 1433556170
  • Pages : 105 pages

Download or read book Making All Things New written by David Powlison and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sexuality was a part of God's good creation from the beginning. But with sin came a world filled with sexual brokenness. Thankfully, God is always in the business of restoration. This book offers hope for both the sexually immoral and the sexually victimized, pointing us all to the grace of Jesus Christ, who mercifully intervenes each moment in our lifelong journey toward renewal. Author David Powlison casts a vision for the key to deep transformation, better than anything the world has to offer—not just fresh resolve, not just flimsy forgiveness, not just simple formulas, but true, lasting mercy from God, who is making all things new.

Book F  k  An Irreverent History of the F Word

Download or read book F k An Irreverent History of the F Word written by Rufus Lodge and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An amusing, informative, controversial and utterly irreverent history of the world’s favourite word.

Book Corpus Juris

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  • Author : William Mack
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1921
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1306 pages

Download or read book Corpus Juris written by William Mack and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 1306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book District Reports Containing Cases Decided in the Various Judicial Districts of the State of Pennsylvania

Download or read book District Reports Containing Cases Decided in the Various Judicial Districts of the State of Pennsylvania written by Pennsylvania. Courts and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Drunkcow Landmines

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  • Author : Daryl Meakes
  • Publisher : Infinity Publishing
  • Release : 2004-11
  • ISBN : 0741422573
  • Pages : 302 pages

Download or read book Drunkcow Landmines written by Daryl Meakes and published by Infinity Publishing. This book was released on 2004-11 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drunkcow landmines are wickedly-unusual-but-oddly-believable stories that have been passed along by someone who believes the story to have happened to a friend of a friend.

Book Rose Buddies

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  • Author : Jamey LeVier
  • Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
  • Release : 2007-08-10
  • ISBN : 1462839983
  • Pages : 113 pages

Download or read book Rose Buddies written by Jamey LeVier and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2007-08-10 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rose Buddies is set in the Summer of 1972 in a diner in the small town of Parker, Pennsylvania. The Rose Bud was a cozy meeting place for several breakfast clubbers - a hodge-podge of gentlemen who met every morning to tell immaculate tales. Find out what fascinating stories they had to tell, and get a few laughs in the process.