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Identifier: politicalhouseth1819hone (find matches)
Title: The political house that Jack built
Year: 1819 (1810s)
Authors: Hone, William, 1780-1842 Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, ill
Subjects: Stoddart, John, Sir,d1773-1856
Publisher: London : Printed by and for William Hone
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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** Ruffians are abroad Leviathan is not so tamed. \ THESE ARE THE REASOJVS OF LAWLESS POWER That back the Public Informer, whoWould put down the Thing^ that, in spite of new Acts,And attempts to restrain it, by Soldiers or Tax,Will poison the Vermin,That plunder the Wealth,That lay in the House,That Jack built. ^d* i ka 3H
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Great talents. * Great offices will have This is THE iVIAN—all shayen and shorn,All (*(wer*(l with Orders—and all forlorn ; THE DANDY OF SIXTY, who bows with a grace,And has taste in wigs, collars, cuirasses and lace;Who, to tricksters, and fools, leaves the State and its treasure,And, when Britains in tears, sails about at his pleasure:Who spurnM from his presence the Friends of his youth.And now has not one who will tell him the truth ;Who took to his counsels, in evil hour,The Friends to the Reasons of lawless Power;That back the Public Informer, whoWould put down the Thing^ that, in spite of new Acts,And attempts to restrain it, by Soldiers or Tax,Vi\\\ poison the Vermin,That plunder the Wealth,That lay in the House,That Jack built. ^lU-JjUx ^lUiiijJjCiiiCj «0a T*^

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