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Flowery oratory he despised. He ascribed to the interested views of themselves or their relatives the declarations of pretended patriots, of whom he said, "All those men have their price."
Flowery oratory he despised. He ascribed to the interested views of themselves or their relatives the declarations of pretended patriots, of whom he said, "All those men have their price."
Approximate author period: c. 1710 AD · early modern
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- Sir Robert Walpole
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- Approximate author period: c. 1710 AD · early modern
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
Coxe: Memoirs of Walpole. Vol. iv. p. 369.
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