 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1909 - 874 pages
...the boats with you ! ' he rallied me. ' My dear sir, it is going to be perfect. As the song says, " We've got the ships, we've got the men, and we've got the money too." An entire sui you may take my word for it ! ' We descended the hill to find the village gay with bunting,... | |
 | 1880 - 612 pages
...contrast to the taste of the present day, which revels in such patriotic egotism as ' We don't want to fight, but by jingo if we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too !' Does the fault lie with the audience or the artists, that we have degenerated... | |
 | Science - 1878 - 616 pages
...excitement : " We don't want to flRht, bnt, by jlogo, If we do. We've got the ehlpe, we've got the meo, and we've got the money too." We may also partly judge...English theatre, perhaps the most contemptible in Enrope. But the real strength of the English middie class is in its serious portion. And of this a... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Democracy - 1879 - 368 pages
...conceive it as the source of that war-song produced in these recent days of excitement: j We don't want to fight, but by jingo, if we do, We've got the ships,...of life, and the needs of its nature, by the modern English,.theatre, perhaps the most contemptible in Europe. But the real strength of the English middle... | |
 | History - 1879 - 740 pages
...first new descriptive party epithet since the days of " Whig " and " Tory " :— " We don't want to fight ; but, by ' Jingo,' if we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too." Mr. Trevelyan commented with vigour on the martial deeds of the Tories in... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1879 - 766 pages
...first new descriptive party epithet since the days of " Whig " and " Tory " :— " We don't want to fight ; but, by ' Jingo,' if we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too." Mr. Trevelyan commented with vigour on the martial deeds of the Tories in... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1879 - 720 pages
...first new descriptive party epithet since the days of " Whig " and " Tory " :— " We don't want to fight ; but, by ' Jingo,' if we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too." Mr. Trevelyan commented with vigour on the martial deeds of the Tories in... | |
 | Justin McCarthy - Great Britain - 1880 - 616 pages
...JINGO.' 473 The refrain of this war-song contained the spiritstirring words : — We don't want to fight, but, by Jingo, if we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too. Some one whose pulses this lyrical outburst of national pride failed to stir,... | |
 | Peter William Clayden - Great Britain - 1880 - 566 pages
...sung in the music-halls the refrain of which has become historical : " We don't want to fight, bat, by Jingo ! if we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too." The song found its way from the music-halls into the streets. Bands of young... | |
 | George Barnett Smith - Great Britain - 1881 - 670 pages
...music-hall song, that resulted in fixing the name of ' Jingo ' upon the war party— ' We don't want to fight ; but, by Jingo, if we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too.' Mr. Lowe made merry over ' the vote of credit and the confidence trick,'... | |
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We don't want to fight, but by jingo if we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too. 
