swinish multitude
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The titles are a take-off of Burke's phrase "the swinish multitude."
From William Pitt and the Great War by Rose, John Holland
Of this number is the explanation of that celebrated phrase, "the swinish multitude": an explanation which was uniformly given by him to his friends, in conversation on the subject.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund
We are not the "swinish multitude" that Mr. Burke speaks of.
From William Pitt and the Great War by Rose, John Holland
Burke's unfortunate phrase in the "Reflections": "Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude."
From William Pitt and the Great War by Rose, John Holland
He holds his dominion over the forest, and its horned multitude of citizen-deer, and its swinish multitude or peasantry of wild boars, by right of conquest and force of arms.
From Maid Marian by Peacock, Thomas Love
