 | John Wynne Jeudwine - Europe - 1925 - 436 pages
...Why, patriots spring up like mushrooms ! I could raise fifty of them within the twenty-four hours. It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up springs a patriot I " " Wedderburne," says Horace Walpole in 1769, " broke out with all the rage of... | |
 | Sir Ernest Scott - HISTORY - 1925 - 236 pages
...like mushrooms. I could raise fifty of them within the twenty-four 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 an essay published some years ago, Dean Inge collected... | |
 | Sir Ernest Scott - Historiography - 1925 - 240 pages
...like mushrooms. I could raise fifty of them within the twenty-four 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 an essay published some years ago, Dean Inge collected... | |
 | Dominic Barthel - Elocution - 1927 - 790 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... | |
 | Arthur Simons Collins - Authors and patrons - 1927 - 288 pages
...delusions that its liberty was being undermined, and the clamour against oppression increased in violence. "It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot " ; so did the minister express his own sense of prevailing politics. At first, the opposition consisted... | |
 | Basil Williams - Political Science - 1966 - 432 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... | |
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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. 
