...from Defoe's poem entitled, "The Free-born Englishman " : "These are the heroes who despise the Dutch And rail at new-come foreigners so much ; Forgetting that themselves are all derived From the mcst scoundrel race that ever lived. A horrid crowd of rambling thieves and drones. Who ransacked kingdoms...

...ancestry is finely painted in the following lines : — " These are the heroes who despise the Dutch, And rail at new-come foreigners so much ; Forgetting...A horrid crowd of rambling thieves and drones, Who ransacked kingdoms and dispeopled towns; The Pict and painted Briton, treach'rous Scot, By hunger,...

...RACE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ANGLO-SAXON. •** These are the heroes who despise the Dutch And rat] at new-come foreigners so much, Forgetting that themselves...the most scoundrel race that ever lived; A horrid race of rambling thieves and drones, "Who ransacked kingdoms and dispeopled towns, The Pict and painted...

...so civil To make a Frenchman English, that's the devil. These are the heroes that despise the Dutch, And rail at new-come foreigners so much, Forgetting...A horrid crowd of rambling thieves and drones, Who ransacked kingdoms and dispeopled towns, The Pict and painted Briton, treacherous Scot, By hunger,...

...buccaneers ? Yet the English boast of nothing so much. " These are the heroes that despise the Dutch, And rail at new-come foreigners so much ; Forgetting...derived From the most scoundrel race that ever lived." The national character, the satirist goes on, is what might be expected from such origin. " The Pict...

...spirited description of the origin of the English race : — "These are the heroes that despise the Dutch, And rail at newcome foreigners so much, Forgetting...A horrid crowd of rambling thieves and drones, Who ransacked kingdoms and dispeopled towns : The Pict and painted Briton, treach'rous Scot By hunger,...

...element that followed in the wake of William of Orange : " These are the heroes that despise the Dutch, And rail at new-come foreigners so much ; Forgetting...A horrid crowd of rambling thieves and drones Who ransacked kingdoms, and dispeopled towns ; The Pict, and painted Briton, treach'rous Scot, By hunger,...

...element that followed in the wake of William of Orange : " These are the heroes that despise the Dutch, And rail at new-come foreigners so much ; Forgetting...scoundrel race that ever lived ; A horrid crowd of ramhling thieves and drones Who ransacked kingdoms, and dispeopled towns ; The Pict, and painted Briton,...

...record blushes to reveal Their undescended, dark original. These are the heroes that despise the Dutch And rail at new-come foreigners so much, Forgetting...A horrid crowd of rambling thieves and drones, Who ransacked kingdoms ami dispeopled towns ; The Pict and painted Briton, treacherous Scot, By hunger,...

...pride of England's ancestral glorification, he says: — " These are the heroes who despise the Dutch And rail at new-come foreigners so much ; Forgetting...— A horrid crowd of rambling thieves and drones ! • • • » • " From our Fifth Henry's time the strolling bands Of banished fugitives from neighb'ring...