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" ifwedo, We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too.” Some one whose pulses this lyrical outburst of national pride failed to stir called the party of "
Dictionary of Idiomatic English Phrases - Page 173
by James Main Dixon - 1891 - 384 pages
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Electronic journals - 1889 - 750 pages
...written a few years ago the burden of which was:— We don't want to fight, but, by Jingo! If we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too. It was popular at music-halls, and the applauder. of the warlike sentiments were derided as Jingoes....
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L'intermédiaire des chercheurs et curieux, Volume 13

Questions and answers - 1880 - 408 pages
...cafés-c certs de Londres, une chanson refrain était : 'But, by Jingo, if we do, We don't want to fight, We've got the ships, we've got the men, We've got the money too! (Moseley. Birmingham.) , HOWARD S. PEARSON. >as les -¡olo * Ce refrain fit fortune parmi la foule...
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Proceedings of the Royal Colonial Institute, Volume 9

Royal Commonwealth Society - Colonies - 1878 - 464 pages
...indefinite extent. The popular refrain of the day runs to the effect that wo can fight because— " We've got the ships, we've got the men, We've got the money too." bold that it were generally recognised that we can colonise because we have these great resources....
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Proceedings, Volume 9

Royal Colonial Institute (Great Britain) - Colonies - 1878 - 458 pages
...indefinite extent. The popular refrain of the day runs to the effect that we can fight because— " We've got the ships, we've got the men, We've got the money too." Would that it were generally recognised that we can colonise because we have these great resources....
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Proceedings of the Royal Colonial Institute, Volume 9

Royal Colonial Institute (Great Britain), Royal Empire Society (Great Britain) - Colonies - 1878 - 464 pages
...indefinite extent. The popular refrain of the day runs to the effect that we can fight because— " We've got the ships, we've got the men, We've got the money too." Would that it were generally recognised that we can colonise because we have these great resources....
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The Annual Register

Edmund Burke - History - 1879 - 766 pages
...the days of “Whig” and “Tory “:— “We don't want to fight; but, by ‘Jingo,' if we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too.” Mr. Trevelyan commented with vigour on the martial deeds of the Tories in a City meeting of the previous...
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Political Speeches in Scotland, November and December 1879, Volume 1

William Ewart Gladstone - Great Britain - 1879 - 280 pages
...this, that, and the other thing, and uniting that we are so strong that we will get through it all, for we've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money >o.' This is the sort of trash, that is the sort of poison upon 'tich, unfortunately, a large portion...
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England Under Lord Beaconsfield: The Political History of Six Years from the ...

Peter William Clayden - Great Britain - 1880 - 566 pages
...music-halls the refrain of which has become historical: " We don't want to fight, bat, by Jingo ! if we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too." The song found its way from the music-halls into the streets. Bands of young men sang it in breaking...
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The life of ... William Ewart Gladstone. Popular ed, Volumes 5-6; Volume 338

George Barnett Smith - 1880 - 546 pages
...finding enough to do in developing the interests of the enormous territory committed to them. The boast' we've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too,' was the sort of trash by which a portion of the people had allowed themselves to be led astray. But...
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Political Speeches in Scotland, November and December 1879 [amd ..., Volume 1

William Ewart Gladstone - 1880 - 372 pages
...that, and the other thing, and vaunting that we are so strong that we will get through it all, for ' we've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too.' This is the sort of trash, that is the sort of poison upon which, unfortunately, a large portion of...
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