 | Great Britain - 1802 - 764 pages
...or beat of Thus, in an honest way, still pick your /wridruru) til." p. 84—67. True patriots all ; for be it understood, We left our country for our country's good; No private views disgrac'd our generous zeal ; What urg'd our travels, was our country's weal ; And... | |
 | 1810 - 420 pages
...o'er wide spread sea» we corn*, Tbsugli not with m«ch eclat or beat of i!rn» ; True patriots »H, for be it understood, We left our country for our country's good. No private views disgraced our generous zeal, What urg'd our traveli wa» our country's weal ; And... | |
 | George Barrington - Natural history - 1802 - 592 pages
...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 : Afo private views disgrac'd our generous zeal, What urg'd our tiavels, was our country's weal; And... | |
 | 1815 - 930 pages
...in Port-Jackson. The noted Barrington furnished the prologue, which he ended with ih , ,e liues: " True patriots we ; for be it understood, We left our country, — for our country's good." CLASSICAL APPLICATIONS. " Two Oxford scholars being at a loss for amusement, one said to the other... | |
 | John Bull - English wit and humor - 1825 - 782 pages
...Jackson. Barrington, the noted pickpocket, furnished the prologue, which ended with these lines : — True patriots we, for be it understood, We left our country for our country'« gond, ALL GONE OUT. Not long since a gentleman near Birmingham, having occasion to see afriend,... | |
 | Richard Ryan - Actors - 1825 - 374 pages
...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 ; No private views disgrac'd our generous zeal ; What urg'd our travels, was, our country's weal ;... | |
 | Literary gems - 1826 - 718 pages
...distant climes, o'er far spread seas we come, But not with much eclat or beat of drum, Tho' patriots all; for, be it understood, We left our country for our country's good. . . . .. i . . In private views at end, our generous zeal, That urg'd our travels, was our country's... | |
 | Peter Miller Cunningham - New South Wales - 1827 - 346 pages
...at least of that 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... | |
 | Law - 1834 - 614 pages
...South Wales, by 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 - Canada - 1839 - 386 pages
...the theatre at 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... | |
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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... 
