 | William Francis Collier - 1864 - 716 strani
...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. I have never been afraid of making patriots." This motion was defeated by 290 against 106. And the... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1865 - 660 strani
...mushrooms. I could raise fifty of them in the 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 ! I have never buen afraid of making patriots, but I disclaim and despise aO their effort*. But this... | |
 | John Charles Earle - 1871 - 504 strani
...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. I have never been afraid of making patriots ; but I disdain and despise all their efforts." The result... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1875 - 968 strani
...1 I could raise fifty of them within the four-and-tvventy 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. I have never been afraid of making patriots ; but I disdain and despise all their efforts. This pretended... | |
 | Alexander Charles Ewald - 1879 - 378 strani
...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,... | |
 | George Henry Jennings - 1880 - 842 strani
...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 strani
...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. I have never been afraid of making patriots ; but I disdain and despise all their efforts. This pretended... | |
 | 1881 - 692 strani
...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 - 1881 - 336 strani
...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 - 1884 - 1152 strani
...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. I have never been afraid of making patriots ; but I disdain and despise all their efforts. This pretended... | |
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A patriot, sir! Why, patriots spring up like 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. 
