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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... become felons or to waste away their bodies by hunger . When we came into the village of Rogate , I saw a little group of persons standing before a blacksmith's shop . The church- yard was on the other side of the road , surrounded by a ...
... become felons or to waste away their bodies by hunger . When we came into the village of Rogate , I saw a little group of persons standing before a blacksmith's shop . The church- yard was on the other side of the road , surrounded by a ...
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... become comparatively soli- tary and mean . The guests at inns are not now gentlemen , but bumpers , who , from being called ( at the inns ) " riders , " became who go travellers , " and are now commercial gentlemen 8 Rural Rides.
... become comparatively soli- tary and mean . The guests at inns are not now gentlemen , but bumpers , who , from being called ( at the inns ) " riders , " became who go travellers , " and are now commercial gentlemen 8 Rural Rides.
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... become oak - trees , and have begun and made great progress in diminishing the value of the ash , which have now to contend against the shade and the roots of the oak . For present profit , and , indeed , for per- manent profit , it ...
... become oak - trees , and have begun and made great progress in diminishing the value of the ash , which have now to contend against the shade and the roots of the oak . For present profit , and , indeed , for per- manent profit , it ...
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... the fact being undeniable that we can grow locust pins here , that I can take a seed to - day , and say that it shall produce two pins in seven years ' time , will it not become an article of heavy accusation against the 14 Rural Rides.
... the fact being undeniable that we can grow locust pins here , that I can take a seed to - day , and say that it shall produce two pins in seven years ' time , will it not become an article of heavy accusation against the 14 Rural Rides.
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William Cobbett. it not become an article of heavy accusation against the govern- ment if they neglect even one day ... become loose at the joints , like oak and other perishable wood ; because , like the live oak and the red cedar , no ...
William Cobbett. it not become an article of heavy accusation against the govern- ment if they neglect even one day ... become loose at the joints , like oak and other perishable wood ; because , like the live oak and the red cedar , no ...
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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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