England under the house of Hanover : its history and condition during the reigns of the three Georges . Fiiiv,Bangor House, Shoe Lane. DA Wright, Thomas *7 England under the house W94. of Hanover 2d ed, v,1 PLEASE DO NOT REMOVECARDS OR SLIPS FROM THIS POCKET UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO LIBRARY. 1116009 PREFACE. The application of song, and satire, and picture, topolitics, is a thing of no modern date; for we trace itmore or less among every people with whose historywe have much acquaintance. Caricatures and songshave been found in Egyptian tombs. The song and thelampoon were the constant at
England under the house of Hanover : its history and condition during the reigns of the three Georges . Fiiiv,Bangor House, Shoe Lane. DA Wright, Thomas *7 England under the house W94. of Hanover 2d ed, v,1 PLEASE DO NOT REMOVECARDS OR SLIPS FROM THIS POCKET UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO LIBRARY. 1116009 PREFACE. The application of song, and satire, and picture, topolitics, is a thing of no modern date; for we trace itmore or less among every people with whose historywe have much acquaintance. Caricatures and songshave been found in Egyptian tombs. The song and thelampoon were the constant attendants on, and incen-tives in, those incessant political struggles which, duringthe middle ages, were preparing for the formation ofmodern society; and many an old manuscript and sculp-tured block, whether of wood or stone, show that ourforefathers in the middle ages understood well thepermanent force of pictorial satire. But it is more es-pecially in religious matters that the middle ages, likeantiquity, have shown a full perception of the import-ance of appealing through the eye to the hearts ofthe masses. In the rapid and temporary movementsof political strife, this weapon could not be adoptedwith much eifect until after the invention of printing,when, by a quick process, pictures eng
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