Wisdom and Wind-Bag Size:Standard: 6 x 4in a complex arrangement of railway

a complex arrangement of railway lines

of the ruins of the banqueting hall at Haberdashers' Hall

Dulwich College

the Tower Bridge & to illustrate the tourists table

October 1971

Wisdom and Wind-Bag Size:Standard: 6 x 4in a complex arrangement of railway'Wisdom and Wind Bag', 1866. The master of rhetoric, Thomas Carlyle, is shown commenting on a speech being given to the masses by John Bright. Bright is seen to be rousing his audience by anger by telling them how the House of Commons hates any of the measures it is forced to discuss that might actually improve the lives of the ordinary working class man. The implication is that he is telling his audience lies. From Punch, or the London Charivari,