...with much eclut, or beat of drum ; True patriots all, for, be it understood, We left our country fer our country's good : No private views disgrac'd our...country's weal : And none will doubt, but that our emigration Has proved most useful to the British nation. But you inquire, what could our breasts inflame,...

...follows : "'From distant lands, o'er wide-spread sens we come, But not with much eclat or beat of drum. True patriots all, for, be it understood, We left...country for our country's good ! No private views disgraced our generous zeal; What urged our travels was our country's weal, And none can doubt but...

...Prologue, said to have been spoken at a performance in Sydney, 16th January, 1796, including the lines — True patriots all, for be it understood, We left our country for our country's good, appeared in Barrington's History, edit. 1802 and 1810, pp. 151153 ; but not in the earlier "Barrington"...

...Sc. 4. Our ships were British oak, And hearts of oak our men. 6. SJ ARNOLD— Death of Nelson. Trne patriots all; for be it understood We left our country for our country's good. c. GEORGE BARBINGTON — Nno South Wales. Prologue for the Opening of the Play-IiOHse nt -iWio South...

...very many who might well have appropriated to themselves the lines of the bard of Botany Bay : — " True patriots all ; for be it understood We left our country for our country's good." They were seldom molested. The national authorities discouraged all applications for surrender in the...

...Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Johnson. Who dared to love their country and be poor. foft. True patriots all ; for be it understood We left our country for our country's good. Barrington. Oh, Heaven I he cried, my bleeding country save. Campbell. My country, 'tis of thee, Sweet...

...his country's sake. — FITZ-GKFFREY : Tke Life and Death of Mir Francis Drakt, stanza 213 (1596). True patriots all ; for, be it understood, We left our country for our country's good. GEOKGP. BAKRINGTON : Prologue m-illen for the cpening of the Play-house at New South Walt!, Jim. Id,...

...died at a green old age at Parramatta. He was thej author of the celebrated prologue, commencing — " True patriots all, for be it understood We left our...country for our country's good ; No private views disgraced our generous zeal, What urged our travels was our country's weal. Barringtcu, NSW A postal...

...climes, o'er wide-spread seas, we come. Though not with much éclat or beat of drum ; True patriots we, for, be it understood, We left our country for our country's good. No private views disgraced our generous zeal, What urged our travels was our country's weal; And none will doubt but...

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