Flowery Oratory He Despised. He Ascribed To The Interested Views Of Themselves Or Their Relatives The Declarations Of Pretended Patriots, Of Whom He Said, "All Those Men Have Their Price.

Flowery Oratory He Despised. He Ascribed To The Interested Views Of Themselves Or Their Relatives The Declarations Of Pretended Patriots, Of Whom He Said, "All Those Men Have Their Price.

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Flowery oratory he despised. He ascribed to the interested views of
themselves or their relatives the declarations of pretended patriots,
of whom he said, "All those men have their price."
-- Sir Robert Walpole (1676-1745)
-- Coxe: Memoirs of Walpole, Vol. iv, p. 369

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