Wall, I hev run on so about politicks and so forth, that I eenamost forgot to tell you about Mrs. Linkin's party.
"Letters of Major Jack Downing, of the Downingville Militia"
Seba Smith
He said he could tell a man's politicks by his shirt.
"The Attache or, Sam Slick in England, Complete"
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
A Reader of Taste may easily observe, that tho' Shakespeare, almost in every Scene of his historical Plays, commits the grossest Offences against Chronology, History, and Ancient politicks; yet This was not thro' Ignorance, as is generally supposed, but thro' the too powerful Blaze of his Imagination; which, when once raised, made all acquired Knowledge vanish and disappear before it.
"Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare"
D. Nichol Smith