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" 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; We've fought the Bear before, and while Britons shall be true The Russians shall not have Constantinople. "
Handy-book of Literary Curiosities - Page 579
by William Shepard Walsh - 1892 - 1104 pages
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The General Baptist repository, and Missionary observer [afterw.] The ...

1877 - 506 pages
...conflict. It may be all very well for the music hall fraternity who swear by St. Jingo, to sing — " We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too ;" and that low rabble, on the principle that " extremes meet," may shake hands with a noble Mansion...
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Notes and Queries, Volume 79

Questions and answers - 1889 - 670 pages
...Eong was 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 applauders of the warlike sentiments were derided as Jingoes....
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Tinsley's Magazine, Volume 27

1880 - 612 pages
...of the present day, which revels in such patriotic egotism as ' 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 !' Does the fault lie with the audience or the artists, that we have degenerated so much ? for that...
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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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Proceedings of the Royal Colonial Institute, Volume 9

Royal Colonial Institute (Great Britain), Royal Empire Society (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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Annual Register, Volume 120

Edmund Burke - History - 1879 - 720 pages
...party epithet since 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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The Annual Register

Edmund Burke - History - 1879 - 766 pages
...party epithet since 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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The Annual Register

History - 1879 - 740 pages
...party epithet since 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
...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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Time, Volume 1

Edmund Yates, Walter Sichel, Ernest Belfort Bax - English literature - 1879 - 780 pages
...solicit public aid. As they went away with a little addition to their fund, one of my party murmured, ' We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too.' ' Yes,' said another, ' now's the time for bragging a bit and making another little war or two. We...
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