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" A patriot, sir! Why, patriots spring up like mushrooms! I could raise fifty of them within the four-andtwenty 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. "
A metrical history of England; or, Recollections, in rhyme of some ... - Page 201
by Thomas John Dibdin - 1813
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The Georgian Era: The royal family. The pretenders and their adherents ...

Art - 1832 - 592 pages
...mushrooms ! 1 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...patriot. I have never been afraid of making patriots, but I disdain and despise all their efforts. All this pretended virtue proceeds from personal malice...
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The New evangelical Church of England champion, by W. Bailey

William Bailey (A.B.) - 534 pages
...like mushrooms ; I could raise fifty of them within four-andtwenty hours. I have raised many of them in one night. It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or insolent demand, and up starts a patriot! !!" Aye, but there is a more fearful volcanic element in...
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Belfegor [a verse adaptation of N. Machiavelli's novella di Belfegor].

Belfegor (fict. name.) - 1837 - 148 pages
...like mushrooms; I could raise fifty of them within four-and-twenty hours. I have raised many of them in one night. It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or insolent demand, and up starts a patriot." In Turkey, when from tower and steeple, The loud-voiced...
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History of England from the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Aix-la-Chaoelle ...

Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1838 - 672 pages
...four-and-twenty hours — I have raised XXIII. . " many of them in one night. It is but refusing to 1741. " gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, " and...patriot. I have never been afraid " of making patriots, but I disdain and despise all " their efforts I am called repeatedly and " insidiously prime and sole...
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pt. II. From the peace of Westphalia in 1648 to the peace of Paris in 1763

William Russell - Europe - 1839 - 620 pages
...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 unreasonable...insolent demand, and up starts a patriot. — I have long heard of this patriotic motion," added he ; " and let gentlemen contradict me, if they can, when...
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The Pictorial History of England: Being, a History of the People ..., Volume 6

George Lillie Craik - Great Britain - 1841 - 540 pages
...mushrooms. I could raise iifty 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...and up starts a patriot ! I have never been afraid 'it' making patriots, but I disclaim and despise all their efforts. But this pretended virtue proceeds...
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History of England: From the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Aix ..., Volume 2

Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1841 - 464 pages
...fifty of them v/ithin the " four-and-twenty hours — I have raised many of them in one "night. Itis but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent...patriot. I have never been afraid of making patriots, butl disdain and despise all their efforts " I am called repeatedly and insidiously prime and sole...
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The History of England: From the Accession to the Decease of King ..., Volume 3

John Adolphus - Great Britain - 1841 - 644 pages
...mushrooms ; I could raise fifty of " them within four-ftnd-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." Coxe's Memoirs of Sir Robert Walpole, quarto, vol. ip 659. HISTORY OF ENGLAND. CHAP. XXXVII. 1780 loth...
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The History of England: From the Accession to the Decease of King ..., Volume 3

John Adolphus - Great Britain - 1841 - 638 pages
...mushrooms ; I could raise fifty of " them within four-and-twcnty 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." Coxe,a Memoirs of Sir Robert Walpole, quarto, vol. ip 659. VOL. III. I CHAP. XXX VII. 1780 13th March....
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The Cabinet History of England: Being an Abridgment, by the ..., Volumes 15-16

Charles MacFarlane - Great Britain - 1846 - 516 pages
...within the four-and-twcnty hours. I have raised many of them in one night. It is but refusing to gratily an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts...patriot ! I have never been afraid of making patriots, but I disclaim and despise all their efforts." Proceeding to consider the articles of accusation, which...
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