| 1802 - 436 sivua
...p. n j. Note. La • Sir Robert Walpale's recipe for malting a patriot. — " Patriots," he said, " spring up like mushrooms : I could raise fifty of...I have raised many of them in one night. It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot!" Vol. 3. p. 254.... | |
| William Russell - 1802 - 514 sivua
...true patriotism is lost, and the " term has been prostituted to the worst of purposes. A " patriot! why patriots spring up like mushrooms: I could " raise fifty of them within the four and twenty hours. I *' have raised many of them in a night. It is but refusing " to gratify an... | |
| Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 518 sivua
...? Or are all these to be counterbalanced by an affected claim to the exclusive title of patriotism. Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism....mushrooms ! I could raise fifty of them within the four and twenty hours. I have raised many of them in one night. It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable... | |
| Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 512 sivua
...other? Or are all these to be counterbalanced by an affected claim to the exclusive title of patriotism. Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism....mushrooms ! I could raise fifty of them within the four and twenty hours. I have raised many of them in one night. It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable... | |
| Thomas John Dibdin - 1813 - 344 sivua
...in danger of falling itiio disgrace. The very idea of true patriotism is lost, and the term has bten prostituted to .the very worst of purposes. A patriot! sir! why patriots spring up like mushroons ! I could raise fifty 6F-them within the four-and-twenty hours. I have raised many of them,... | |
| William Coxe - 1816 - 448 sivua
...great deal of patriotism : a venerable word, when duly practised. But I am sorry to say, that of Jate it has been so much hackneyed about, that it is in...mushrooms? I could raise fifty of them within the four-and-twenty hours. I have raised many of them in one night. It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable,... | |
| 1897 - 812 sivua
...and Sir Robert Walpole brought sound Whig testimony to bear it out when he said, "A patriot, Sir 1 Why patriots spring up like mushrooms. I could raise fifty of them within the four and twenty hours. I have raised many of them in one night. It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable... | |
| 1832 - 616 sivua
...the course of which he thus sarcastically spoke of those who were called the patriotic party : — " A patriot, sir ! why, patriots spring up like mushrooms ! I could raise fifty of them within the fourand-twenty hours: I have raised many of them in one night. It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable... | |
| William Russell - 1837 - 764 sivua
...idea of true patriotism is lost, and the term has been prostituted to the worst purposes. A patriot ! why, patriots spring up like mushrooms: I could raise fifty of them within four-and-twenty hours. I have raised many of them in a night. It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable... | |
| Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1838 - 680 sivua
...a Minister's fall. " The Tories," said Sir Robert, " I can easily forgive ; they have un" willingly come into the measure, and they do me " honour in..." up like mushrooms ! I could raise fifty of them ^* CHAP. « within the four-and-twenty hours — I have raised XXIII. . . " many of them in one night.... | |
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