Rural Rides, Band 2Cosimo, Inc., 01.01.2005 - 328 Seiten I found the working people of Frome very intelligent; very well informed as to the cause of their misery; not at all humbuggered by the canters, whether about religion or loyalty. -from "Salisbury to Highworth, Saturday, 2 September" Son of an innkeeper, former soldier, champion of the working class, early anticorporate activist, and future Member of Parliament-Will Cobbett's unique eye offers us a perspective on 19th-century England we won't find anywhere else. Cobbett roamed Southern England on horseback in the years between 1821 and 1832, gathering his "economical and political observations relative to matters applicable to, and illustrated by, the state of" that charming part of the world, one in the throes of massive change in the wake of the Industrial Revolution. This is an extraordinary record of a world long gone, one very little documented when it existed, by a voice who was far ahead of his time. British journalist and radical WILLIAM COBBETT (1762-1835) is also the author of The Progress of a Ploughboy to a Seat in Parliament (1830). |
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| 58 | |
From Highworth to Cricklade and thence to Malmsbury | 80 |
From Malmsbury in Wiltshire through Gloucestershire Hereford | 100 |
From Ryall in Worcestershire to Berghclere in Hampshire | 120 |
From Berghclere to Lyndhurst in the New Forest | 143 |
From Lyndhurst to Beaulieu Abbey thence to Southampton | 167 |
From Weston near Southampton to Kensington | 181 |
To Tring in Hertfordshire | 206 |
Northern Tour | 216 |
Midland Tour | 260 |
Tour in the West | 276 |
Notes | 299 |
Index | 323 |
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Seite 59 - Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, Even to make the poor of the land to fail, Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? And the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, Making the ephah small, and the shekel great, And falsifying the balances by deceit? That we may buy the poor for silver, And the needy for a pair of shoes ; Yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?
Seite 154 - With regard likewise to wild animals, all mankind had by the original grant of the Creator a right to pursue and take away any fowl or insect of the air, any fish or inhabitant of the waters, and any beast or reptile of the field: and this natural right still continues in every individual, unless where it is restrained by the civil laws of the country. And when a man has once so seized them, they become, while living, his qualified property, or, if dead, are absolutely his own: so that to steal them,...
Seite 222 - I bring out strings of very interesting facts; I use pretty powerful arguments; and I hammer them down so closely upon the mind that they seldom fail to produce a lasting impression.
Seite 122 - Of all the mean, all the cowardly, reptiles, that ever crawled on the face of the earth, the English landowners are the most mean and the most cowardly...
Seite 226 - The windmills on the hills in the vicinage are so numerous that I counted whilst standing in one place, no less than seventeen. They are all painted or washed white, the sails are black, it was a fine morning, the wind was brisk and their twirling...
Seite 38 - It seemed to me, that one way, and that not, perhaps, the least striking, of exposing the folly, the stupidity, the inanity, the presumption, the insufferable emptiness and insolence and barbarity, of those numerous wretches, who have now the audacity, to propose to transport the people of England, upon the principle of the monster Malthus, who has furnished the unfeeling oligarchs, and their toad-eaters, with the pretence, that man has a natural propensity to breed faster, than food can be raised...
Seite 58 - Oh, no no! my friend,' said I, 'it is not they: it is that ACCURSED HILL that has robbed you of the supper that you ought to find smoking on the table when you get home.
Seite 258 - At Yarmouth there were four hundred persons, generally young men, labourers, carpenters, wheel-wrights, millwrights, smiths and bricklayers; most of them with some money and some farmers and others with good round sums. These people were going to Quebec in timber ships, and from Quebec by land into the United States. ... At Hull . . . the emigration is going on in the "old Roman plan.
Seite 155 - ... franchises were granted as much with a view to preserve the breed of animals, as to indulge the subject. From a similar principle to which, though the forest laws are now mitigated, and by degrees grown entirely obsolete...
Seite 71 - liberty" indeed ; " civil and religious liberty " : the Inquisition, until a. belly full, is far preferable to a state of things like this. For my own part, I really am ashamed to ride a fat horse, to have a full belly, and to have a clean shirt upon my back, while I look at these wretched countrymen of mine ; while I actually see them reeling with weakness ; when I see...