| Peter Miller Cunningham - 1827 - 346 σελίδες
...class of our community, facetiously self-described in the first Botany prologue as True patriots we, for be it understood, We left our country for our country's good, are any thing but degraded iu feeling, when we see them thus, in the plenitude of honest pride arising... | |
| 1834 - 614 σελίδες
...that class of persons so humorously described by Barrington, who was one of them : " True patriots we, for be it understood, We left our country for our country's good ;" . •• - - ' ' 3 i And when, amongst other grounds of complaint against the English army for burning... | |
| Frederick Marryat - 1839 - 338 σελίδες
...Botany Bay, Barrington spoke the prologue, which ended with these two lines:— " True Patriots we, for be it understood, We left our country, for our country's good." In this view of the case, some of them, it is hoped, will turn out patriots before they die, if they... | |
| C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 396 σελίδες
...the notorious pick-pocket, wrote the prologue ; which ended with these lines : True patrióle we ; for, be it understood, We left our country — for our country's good Ignorance— Willfulness. Tiie ignoran/— oppose without discrimination. Harvey, for asserting the... | |
| Asa Mahan - 1845 - 348 σελίδες
...made by a celebrated convict at Botany Bay, in respect to himself and associates : " True patriots we, For, be it understood, We left our country For our country's good." Wit may not inappropriately be denominated shallow sense, being, in most instances, the antithesis... | |
| 1898 - 712 σελίδες
...THE BOTANY BAY THEATRE. See 2" d S. viii. 294; 3* S. iii. 120 ; iv. 245; xi. 476; 9 th S. ii. 384.) True patriots all, for be it understood We left our country for our country's good. ELSEWHERE* I have shown that the ' Prologue ' containing the above-quoted lines was not written by... | |
| E. A. ANSLEY - 1849 - 288 σελίδες
...ty&oif 'E aut'ou tfi rtoifiv, i>oj It, ye Srj toif ®toif." — Dem. Ex. — " True patriots we, — for be it understood, We left our country for our country's good." "Henri IV. a bateau passait un jour le Loire, Le nautonnier robuste, homtne de cinquante ans, Avait... | |
| 1887 - 678 σελίδες
...widespread seas, we come, Though not with much eclat or beat of drum ; True patriots we, lor be ii understood, We left our country, for our country's good. No private views disgraced our uenerous zeal, What urge I our travels wui own country's weal; And none will doubt, but... | |
| 1883 - 674 σελίδες
...:— " From distant climes, o'er wide-spread seas we come, Though not with much eclat or beat of drum; True patriots all ; for be it understood We left our country for our country's good." Who was the author of this squib 7 Harrington was the celebrated pickpocket, and no doubt in 1801 it... | |
| 1887 - 678 σελίδες
...communications which, for any reason, we do not print; and to this rule we can make no exception, True patriot* all ; for be it understood We left our country for our country's good. A JOURNALIST, who has been made the subject of« Cri mi oal Prosecution f'>rapplyinR Barnngtou's weíl-ku»wu... | |
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