An Army of Trumpeters would give as great a Strength to a Cause, as this Confederacy of Tongue-Warriours; who like those military Musicians, content themselves with animating their Friends to Battel, and run out of the Engagement upon the first Onset.
Joseph Addison (1672–1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1716-03-26), The Freeholder, No. 28
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Regarding those supporting the Jacobite risings of the late 17th and early 18th Centuries.
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Many talk like Philosophers, and live like Fools.
Thomas Fuller (1654–1734) English physician, preacher, aphorist, writer
Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs (compiler), # 3358 (1732)
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