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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... 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 income , it is not fair Petersfield to Kensington 7.
... 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 income , it is not fair Petersfield to Kensington 7.
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William Cobbett. a part of their income , it is not fair for them to come to the people at large to make up for the loss . Thus it has gone on . The great masses of property have , in general , been able to take care of themselves : but ...
William Cobbett. a part of their income , it is not fair for them to come to the people at large to make up for the loss . Thus it has gone on . The great masses of property have , in general , been able to take care of themselves : but ...
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... fair play ; and I dare say that Lord Winterton is just enough to be content with the consequences of his enjoyments . This Chiddingfold is a very pretty place . There is a very pretty and extensive green opposite the church ; and we ...
... fair play ; and I dare say that Lord Winterton is just enough to be content with the consequences of his enjoyments . This Chiddingfold is a very pretty place . There is a very pretty and extensive green opposite the church ; and we ...
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... fair for them to enjoy the warmth without subscribing to the doctrines of the giver of the warmth . However , as I have nothing to do with Mr. Judson's affair , either as to the profit or the loss , he must sell the fireplaces to ...
... fair for them to enjoy the warmth without subscribing to the doctrines of the giver of the warmth . However , as I have nothing to do with Mr. Judson's affair , either as to the profit or the loss , he must sell the fireplaces to ...
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... fair dealing with my readers , call upon me to disclaim so haughty a pretension . I have no such power as this public instructor ascribes to me . Greater causes are at work to produce such effects ; causes wholly uncontrollable by me ...
... fair dealing with my readers , call upon me to disclaim so haughty a pretension . I have no such power as this public instructor ascribes to me . Greater causes are at work to produce such effects ; causes wholly uncontrollable by me ...
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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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