 | 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... | |
 | Justin McCarthy - Great Britain - 1880 - 616 pages
...JINGO.' 473 The refrain of this war-song contained the spiritstirring words : — 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. Some one whose pulses this lyrical outburst of national pride failed to stir, called the party of its... | |
 | Peter William Clayden - Great Britain - 1880 - 566 pages
...sung in the 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... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Democracy - 1880 - 476 pages
...conceive it as the source of that war-song produced in these recent days of excitement : We don't want to fight, but by jingo, if we do, We've got the ships, weVe got the men, and we've got the money too. We may also partly judge its standard of life, and the needs of its nature,... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - English essays - 1880 - 372 pages
...conceive it as the source of that war-song produced in these recent days of excitement : We don't want to fight, but by jingo, if we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men, and we've got the money too. We may also partly judge its standard of life, and the needs of its nature,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Justin McCarthy - Great Britain - 1881 - 708 pages
...excited patriots. The refrain of this war-song contained the spirit-stirring words : ' 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." Some one, whose pulses this lyrical outburst of national pride failed to stir, called the party of... | |
 | George Barnett Smith - Great Britain - 1881 - 670 pages
...music-hall song, that resulted in fixing the name of ' Jingo ' upon the war party— ' 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. Lowe made merry over ' the vote of credit and the confidence trick,' and said that the Prime Minister... | |
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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. 
