[Ads-l] Antedating of "Damned If You Do and Damned If You Don't"

[Pete Morris]

The 1836 cite located by Fred turns out to be a reprint.

Here's the same words, same author  in 1804.

https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Opinion_of_Dow/R5IPAAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22damned+if+you+do%22&pg=PA24&printsec=frontcover

and again in 1814

https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/History_of_Cosmopolite_Or_the_Four_Volum/fz4XAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22damned+if+you+do%22&pg=RA2-PA24&printsec=frontcover


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>From "Shapiro, Fred" <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU>
To ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Date 15/10/2022 13:13:10
Subject Antedating of "Damned If You Do and Damned If You Don't"

>damned if you do and damned if you don't (OED 1838)
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>1836 Lorenzo Dow Reflections on the Love of God​ 30
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>And you will be damned if you do -- And you will be damned if you don't.
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>Fred Shapiro
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