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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... cause of inability to labour . I should have told them this , and , in all probability , a great deal more , but I had not time ; and , besides , they will have an opportunity of reading all about it in my little book called the History ...
... cause of inability to labour . I should have told them this , and , in all probability , a great deal more , but I had not time ; and , besides , they will have an opportunity of reading all about it in my little book called the History ...
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... cause why the young labouring man is " content to exist upon 7d . a day , for six days in the week , and nothing for Sunday . Oh ! we are a most free and enlightened people ; our happy constitution in church and state has supplanted ...
... cause why the young labouring man is " content to exist upon 7d . a day , for six days in the week , and nothing for Sunday . Oh ! we are a most free and enlightened people ; our happy constitution in church and state has supplanted ...
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... cause of this system . It is not the fault of those who receive 7d . a day . It is the fault of the family of Wyndham and of such persons ; and if they have chosen to suffer the Jews and jobbers to take away so large a part of their ...
... cause of this system . It is not the fault of those who receive 7d . a day . It is the fault of the family of Wyndham and of such persons ; and if they have chosen to suffer the Jews and jobbers to take away so large a part of their ...
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... causes that have a wider extent . These causes reach the good as well as the bad : all are involved alike : like the pestilence , this horrible system is no respecter of persons : and decay and beggary mark the whole face of the country ...
... causes that have a wider extent . These causes reach the good as well as the bad : all are involved alike : like the pestilence , this horrible system is no respecter of persons : and decay and beggary mark the whole face of the country ...
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... cause of the govern- ment's adopting this wise and beneficial measure ? I am disposed to believe , however , that the government will not be brutish enough obstinately to reject the advice given to them on this head , it being observed ...
... cause of the govern- ment's adopting this wise and beneficial measure ? I am disposed to believe , however , that the government will not be brutish enough obstinately to reject the advice given to them on this head , it being observed ...
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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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