 | John Morley - Prime ministers - 1889 - 268 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." The coalition which Walpole denounced, did not hold together until the division. The movement had been... | |
 | William Francis Collier, Walter Scott Dalgleish - Great Britain - 1891 - 804 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." This motion was defeated by 290 against 106. The same motion, made in the Upper House by Lord Carteret... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Conduct of life - 1891 - 302 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.' — Coxe's Memoirs of Walfole, i. 659. The ' old Roman... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1891 - 548 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.' Coxe's Walpole, \. 659. See ante, ii. 398, and iii.... | |
 | George Barnett Smith - 1892 - 658 pages
...like mushrooms ! I could raise fifty of them within 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." Sir Robert then defended his home and foreign policy, and thus concluded : " I must think that an address... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley - Wit and humor - 1894 - 464 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." UNWELCOME AGREEMENT. МАRК LEMON'S JEST BOOK. am, sir,... | |
 | English Orators - 1899 - 616 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 and... | |
 | Orators - 1900 - 496 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... | |
 | W. V. Byars - Oratory - 1901 - 616 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,... | |
 | William Vincent Byars - Orators - 1901 - 614 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,... | |
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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. 
