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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... England where , I believe , they live better than in any other part of it . The poor creature here has sevenpence a day for six days in the week to find him food , clothes , washing , and lodging ! It is just sevenpence , less than one ...
... England where , I believe , they live better than in any other part of it . The poor creature here has sevenpence a day for six days in the week to find him food , clothes , washing , and lodging ! It is just sevenpence , less than one ...
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... England's Glory . It was this Lord Montague , I believe , who had this ancient and noble mansion completely repaired , and fitted up as a place of residence : and a few days , or a very few weeks , at any rate , after the work was ...
... England's Glory . It was this Lord Montague , I believe , who had this ancient and noble mansion completely repaired , and fitted up as a place of residence : and a few days , or a very few weeks , at any rate , after the work was ...
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... England is taxed to maintain those West Indies in their state of dependence upon England ; and I cannot forget that the burden of these sinecures are amongst the grievances of which the West Indians justly com- plain . True , the taxing ...
... England is taxed to maintain those West Indies in their state of dependence upon England ; and I cannot forget that the burden of these sinecures are amongst the grievances of which the West Indians justly com- plain . True , the taxing ...
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... England ! Now it is pretty well known , at least I have been so informed , that our government have sent to America in consequence of my writings about the locust to endeavour to get locust pins for the navy . I have been informed that ...
... England ! Now it is pretty well known , at least I have been so informed , that our government have sent to America in consequence of my writings about the locust to endeavour to get locust pins for the navy . I have been informed that ...
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... England . It would be a prodigious creation of real and solid wealth . Not such a creation as that of paper money , which only takes the dinner from one man and gives it to another , which only gives an unnatural swell to a city or a ...
... England . It would be a prodigious creation of real and solid wealth . Not such a creation as that of paper money , which only takes the dinner from one man and gives it to another , which only gives an unnatural swell to a city or a ...
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Down the Vale of the Avon in Wiltshire | 34 |
From Salisbury to Warminster from Warminster to Frome from | 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 |
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