<span style="color:grey">Of an old ate,

    <span style="color:grey">t kept a brave old  a bountiful rate,

    <span style="color:grey">And an old porter to relieve t e.

    <span style="color:grey">itudy ?lld full of learned old books,

    <span style="color:grey">it know him by his looks,

    <span style="color:grey">ittery-ce off the hooks,

    <span style="color:grey">And an old kitc maintained half-a-dozen old cooks.

    t uring and giving ludicrous appellations or nicknames. In ted, not merely individuals, but nations, and in t spared even themselves.

    One  in personifying itself a nation  to picture somet it is ceristic of t is blunt, comic, and familiar, t tional oddities in turdy, corpulent old fello, red coat, leatout oaken cudgel. taken a singular deliging t private foibles in a laug of vie tual existence more absolutely present to t eccentric personage, John Bull.

    Perinual contemplation of ter tributed to ?x it upon tion, and to give reality to  ?rst may ed in a great measure from tion. Men are apt to acquire peculiarities t are continually ascribed to tivated o act up to ture t is perpetually before their eyes.

    Unluckily, times make ted Bullism an apology for ticed among truly ed beyond ttle uncout to utter impertinent trut o an   unreasonable burst of passion about tri?es,  Jo t and rays a coarseness of tast