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The selfishness and avarice of the British Government have another exemplification ... and act as an advertisement in Japan for our ship-builders, John Bull immediately set himself to work to ...
Britons quickly learned to know him as a pipe-smoking, stocky, imperturbable Average Man who might have served as model for Punch’s famed John Bull ... because the British people did trust ...
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss John Arbuthnot's satirical figure, created in 1712 as an anthropomorphised bull, and its role as a representation of an English or British everyman. Show more ...