William Hazlitt Quote

Defoe says, that there were a hundred thousand stout country-fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.


"On Prejudice". - Men and Manners: Sketches and Essays (1852)


Defoe says, that there were a hundred thousand stout country-fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether...

Defoe says, that there were a hundred thousand stout country-fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether...

Defoe says, that there were a hundred thousand stout country-fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether...

Defoe says, that there were a hundred thousand stout country-fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether...