Yankee Portrait of John Bull — 566
An American writer says: “John Bull is altogether too superfluous and clumsy; his proportions want regulating; his belly is too protuberant; his neck too thick; his feet too spreading; his hands too large and podgy; his lips too spongy and everted; his cheeks too pendulous; his nose too lobular, blunt, and bottle-like; his expression altogether too beef-eating. In a word, according to our taste, John Bull won’t do, and must be done over again. The American is an Englishman without his caution, his reserve, his fixed habits, his cant, and his stolidity.”