 | Alexander Charles Ewald - Statesmen - 1879 - 378 pages
...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 ! " Yet, happily the picture is not all shade. There are men whose patriotism is loyal and single-minded,... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1880 - 1246 pages
...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...and up starts a patriot. I have never been afraid 01 making patriots ; but I disdain and despise all their efforts. This pretended virtue proceeds from... | |
 | George Henry Jennings - Anecdotes - 1880 - 842 pages
...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 or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot." The Balance of Power. — This expression occurs in the speech by Sir Robert Walpole in 1741, in which... | |
 | Great orators - 1881 - 242 pages
...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...patriot. I have never been afraid of making patriots ; but I disdain and despise all their efforts. This pretended virtue proceeds from personal malice... | |
 | Art - 1881 - 692 pages
...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." It should be mentioned, however, that the profligate political axiom generally attributed to Walpole,... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - Eloquence - 1881 - 336 pages
...mushrooms ! I could raise fifty of them in twenty-four hours. I have raised many of them in a single night. It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot ! " The reasonings of Walpole's day were brief and pointed, with no attempts at philosophy, with but... | |
 | Joseph H. Beale - World history - 1884 - 1152 pages
...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...patriot. I have never been afraid of making patriots ; but I disdain and despise all their efforts. This pretended virtue proceeds from personal malice... | |
 | Alexander Charles Ewald - 1884 - 668 pages
...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...patriot. I have never been afraid of making patriots; but I disdain and despise all their efforts. But this pretended virtue proceeds from personal malice,... | |
 | William Francis Collier - Great Britain - 1887 - 536 pages
...mushrooms. I could raise fifty of them within the four-aud-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." This motion was defeated by 290 against 106. And the same motion, made in the Upper House by Lord Carteret... | |
 | John Innes Clark Hare - Constitutional law - 1889 - 748 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...patriot. I have never been afraid of making patriots, but I disdain and despise all tlteir efforts." Walpole's speech in the House of Commons, Feb. 18, 1741;... | |
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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. 
