 | William Vincent Byars - Orators - 1901 - 610 pages
...it — (In the «Tilden Convention," St Louis, 1876.) Walpole, Sir Robert (England, 1676-1745.) 457 an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts...patriot. I have never been afraid of making patriots ; but I disdain and despise all their efforts. This pretended virtue proceeds from personal malice,... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1902 - 466 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1905 - 460 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Douglas Ford - Great Britain - 1907 - 386 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 insolent demand, and up starts a patriot ! " But the oratorical sword had a double edge when used by... | |
 | Basil Williams - Great Britain - 1913 - 478 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 insolent demand, and up starts a patriot.' 1 1 Pitt's rough notes of this debate are preserved in Chatham... | |
 | John Morley - 1921 - 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... | |
 | John Morley - 1921 - 252 pages
...them in one night. It is but 1 The minutes of the speech are given by Coxe, ch. Ivi. vol. iv. p. 184. 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... | |
 | George Robert Stirling Taylor - Statesmen - 1921 - 290 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 insolent demand, and up starts a patriot. There is not a man amongst them whose particular aim I am... | |
 | Charles Clive Bigham Mersey (Viscount) - Great Britain - 1922 - 472 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 insolent demand and up starts a patriot. "J Nearly all his contemporaries spoke well of him. Onslow... | |
 | Charles Clive Bigham Mersey (Viscount) - Great Britain - 1924 - 488 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 insolent demand and up starts a patriot."J Nearly all his contemporaries spoke well of him. Onslow... | |
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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. 
