 A patriot, sir ! 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 or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot.  Some Verdicts of History Reviewed - Page 240by William Stebbing - 1887 - 416 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Russell - Europe - 1802 - 514 pages
...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...and twenty hours. I *' have raised many of them in a night. It is but refusing " to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and " up starts a patriot.... | |
 | 1802 - 436 pages
...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 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 - Great Britain - 1808 - 512 pages
...very idea of true patriotism is lost; and the term has been prostituted to the very worst of purposes. A patriot, sir ! — Why patriots spring up like mushrooms...twenty hours. 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. I have... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 518 pages
...idea of true patriotism is lost ; and the term has been prostituted to the very worst of purposes. A patriot, sir ! — Why patriots spring up like mushrooms...twenty hours. 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. I have... | |
 | John Adams - Great Britain - 1813 - 324 pages
...lost, and the term has been prostituted to the worst of pur. poses. A patriot ! why patriots spring 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 or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot."... | |
 | William Coxe - Prime ministers - 1816 - 448 pages
...very idea of true patriotism is lost, and the term has been prostituted to the very worst of purposes. A patriot, Sir ! 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,... | |
 | Mrs. Jamieson (Frances Thurtle) - Costume - 1820 - 538 pages
...councils, said, that * patriots sprung up like mushrooms; I could raise fifty of them,' continued he, ' within the four and twenty hours. I have raised many of them in a night!' Not such patriots as Joan of Arc though"— " No, indeed, Sir,'' replied Edward. " The road... | |
 | North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1897 - 812 pages
...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...twenty hours. I have raised many of them in one night. It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable aud insolent demand and up starts a patriot. I have never... | |
 | Art - 1832 - 616 pages
...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 - Europe - 1837 - 764 pages
...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... | |
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