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Throughout the fierce struggle of parties, never so intense in any period of our history as during those years when the Constitution itself hung in the balance, it was as a True-born Englishman first and a Whig and Dissenter afterwards, that Defoe gave his support to the Tory Ministry.
"What? They dismember the divine person of the Saviour and attribute to it two distinct natures. And then! All the Greeks settled here, and encouraged by the protection of the emperor, treated us, the owners of the land, like slaves, till your nation came to put an end to their oppression. They drove us by force into their churches, and every true-born Egyptian was punished as a rebel and a leper.
The attorney saw and took advantage of Oakly's prejudice against the natives of Scotland; and he persuaded him, that to show the SPIRIT of a true-born Englishman it was necessary, whatever it might cost him, to persist in this law suit. It was soon after this conversation with the attorney that Mr.
"Do you mean to say that you, the head of the family, don't know?" "What is it?" he asked. "Every true-born son or daughter of San Guido," she explained, "bears in the palm of the hand a little pit or dint, which is the survival in his descendants of the scar made by the thorn in the hand of San Guido himself. See I have it." She held out her hand.
Talked of his proper element, the sea, gaining ease and self-possession from the magnitude and manifold enchantments of his theme. To him, as to all true-born sailor-men so Damaris divined the world is made of water, with but accident of land.
The next navigator round the Cape was Sir Francis Drake, who, on Raleigh's Expedition, beholding for the first time, from the Isthmus of Darien, the "goodlie South Sea," like a true-born Englishman, vowed, please God, to sail an English ship thereon; which the gallant sailor did, to the sore discomfiture of the Spaniards on the coasts of Chili and Peru.
"I tended the stern gun." "Very good. The next day, being still off the Banks, she fell in with Commodore Rodgers, of the United States frigate President, and surrendered to him right away." "We sank the mails." "You did, my man. Notwithstanding which, that lion-hearted hero treated you with the forbearance of a true-born son of freedom." Captain Seccombe's voice took an oratorical roll.
He was a true-born Russian, his fondest wish was to see Russia delivered, and delivered she would be without risking the chance of another battle; and as for the rest of Europe, it was nothing to him whether it was under the dominion of France or England."
At the beginning of the year 1700, Mr. De Foe published a satire in verse, which excited very considerable attention, called the "True-born Englishman."
But do tell me, Kit, is he an honest, wholesome sort of man?" "As honest as the day," says I, "and a nobler, handsomer man never breathed." "God be praised for all things," says he, devoutly. "Tell me he's an Englishman, Kit as Moll did seem to think he was, spite his foreign name and my joy's complete." "As true-born an Englishman as you are," says I. "Lord love him for it!" cries he.
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