 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.  The North American Review - Page 2481897Full view - About this book
 | John Morley - 1921 - 268 pages
...impatient for office, clamour for change of measures, but mean only change of ministers. " 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... | |
 | Charles Clive Bigham Mersey (Viscount) - 1922 - 472 pages
...so-called patriots were assailing him, he finished his reply with the words : " 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... | |
 | Charles Clive Bigham Mersey (Viscount) - 1924 - 488 pages
...the so-called patriots were assailing him, he finished his reply with the words: " 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... | |
 | Sir Ernest Scott - 1925 - 240 pages
...referring to the kind of patriotism that Walpole derided in a celebrated tirade : ' A patriot, sir ? Why, patriots spring up 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... | |
 | Sir Ernest Scott - 1925 - 236 pages
...referring to the kind of patriotism that Walpole derided in a celebrated tirade : ' A patriot, sir ? Why, patriots spring up 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... | |
 | John Wynne Jeudwine - 1925 - 436 pages
...saying which is equally appropriate to the Opposition in the succeeding reigns. " A patriot. Sir ! 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... | |
 | Dominic Barthel - 1927 - 790 pages
...patriotism is lost, and the term has been prostituted to the very worst of purposes. 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... | |
 | Basil Williams - 1966 - 432 pages
...frankly cynical. One characteristic gibe at Pitt and his young friends is recorded : ' 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... | |
 | William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1872 - 556 pages
...scarcely higher than his opinion of patriots, of whom he said, " Patriots spring up like mushrooms, and I could raise fifty of them within the four and twenty hours. I have raised many of them in one night." All politicians were not of Walpole's way of thinking. Smollett said, " A late nobleman who had been... | |
 | 1913 - 1278 pages
...the virtue of a bribe of a thousand guineas to procure a position for her brother. 8 "A patriot, sir. Why, patriots spring up like mushrooms. I could raise fifty of them within four-aud-tweuty hours. I have rained many of them in one night." — Walpole's Speech in reply to Sandys.... | |
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