 | Hugh Montgomery, Philip George Cambray - 1906 - 428 pàgines
...owes its origin to a song at that time popular, expressing the " jingo " spirit : "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." Joint Committee. (See COMMITTEES.) Judge Advocate General, Is the legal adviser... | |
 | William Hunt, Reginald Lane Poole - 1907 - 566 pàgines
...several years, was derived from a music-hall song of this autumn, which declared that " 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 I " 1878 THE TREATY OF SAN STEFANO. 289 nople. On the I3th Hornby made the... | |
 | 1881 - 782 pàgines
...is set forth with charming frankness in the famous couplet of his battle-song : — 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. Observe, " we don't want to fight." On the contrary, we prefer to stop at... | |
 | Elizabeth Robins Pennell, Joseph Pennell - 1908 - 528 pàgines
...pleased, for the examination ended in the one song he allowed himself in Venice : " We don't want to fight, But, by jingo ! if we do, We've got the ships, WeVe got the men, And got the money too-oo-oo ! " The first proofs of other plates, we believe, were very unsatisfactory.... | |
 | Sir Spencer Walpole - 1908 - 438 pàgines
...Beaconsfield had displayed, was shouting its approval of Lord Beaconsfield's language. 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, 1 Par/. Papert, 1877, Turkey (No. 1), p. 695. was the popular way in which... | |
 | 1908 - 1178 pàgines
...laden air of Hawaii that whispers the old-time taunt of the braggart nation — "that 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." The fortification of these one-time inconspicuous islands has brought them... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1908 - 678 pàgines
...name given to the war-party in England in 1878, from a popular music-hall song: " 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." Hence the boastful cry for war and conquest is called Jingoism. JJ, in Thackeray's... | |
 | Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby - 1909 - 914 pàgines
...spirit prevailed it freely found vent in a doggerel first sung at a music hall: " 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." 'Jingo!' shouted with a significant emphasis, was derisively cast as a... | |
 | William Thomas Stead - 1909 - 680 pàgines
...perished in oblivion ; the chorus is enshrined in history like a fly in amber : — " 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. We've fought the Bear before, And if we're Britons true, The Russians shall... | |
 | William S. Walsh - 1909 - 1116 pàgines
...song became very popular in the English music-halls, the refrain of which was, — 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. "Jingo" was derisively cast as a nickname at the warlike party, and was proudly... | |
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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. 
