Our ears have rung with the noisy frothiness of those who have bought their fellow-men as beasts in the market-place, and found their reward in the sycophancy of a degraded constituency, or the patronage of a venal ministry-no matter of what creed, for party must destroy patriotism....
"The History of "Punch""
M. H. Spielmann
311. This fact shows the frothiness of the talk indulged in by Russians in 1807 as to "our rapacity and perfidy" in seizing the Danish fleet.
"The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2)"
John Holland Rose