As for the American Troops, they were in general many Degrees worse, but the Officers in particular, who were composed of Blacksmiths, Taylors, Shoemakers, and all the Banditti that Country affords, insomuch, that the other Parts of the Army held them in scorn.
"An Account of the expedition to Carthagena, with explanatory notes and observations"
Sir Charles Knowles
Look at the critters here, look at the publicans, Taylors, barbers, and porters' sons, how the've rose here, 'in this big lake,' to be chancellors and archbishops; how did they get them?
"The Attache or, Sam Slick in England, Complete"
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Players are just such judges of what is right, as Taylors are of what is graceful.
"Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare"
D. Nichol Smith