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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... fine and ancient church close by the squire's house . I saw the squire looking at some poor devils who were making " wauste improvements , ma'am , ” on the road which passes by the squire's door . He looked un- commonly hard at me . It ...
... fine and ancient church close by the squire's house . I saw the squire looking at some poor devils who were making " wauste improvements , ma'am , ” on the road which passes by the squire's door . He looked un- commonly hard at me . It ...
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... fine valley , the distant boundary of which , to the south and south - west , is the South Down Hills . Some of the trees here are very fine , particularly some most magnificent rows of the Spanish chestnut . I asked the people at ...
... fine valley , the distant boundary of which , to the south and south - west , is the South Down Hills . Some of the trees here are very fine , particularly some most magnificent rows of the Spanish chestnut . I asked the people at ...
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... fine rich loam at top , with clay further down . It is good for all sorts of trees , and they seem to grow here very fast . We got to Petworth pretty early in the day . On entering it you see the house of Lord Egremont , which is close ...
... fine rich loam at top , with clay further down . It is good for all sorts of trees , and they seem to grow here very fast . We got to Petworth pretty early in the day . On entering it you see the house of Lord Egremont , which is close ...
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... fine woods and coppices , in a north - west direction , or thereabouts ; and the turnpike - road , which goes from Petworth to Godalming , goes in a north - north - east direc- tion . I was resolved , be the consequences what they might ...
... fine woods and coppices , in a north - west direction , or thereabouts ; and the turnpike - road , which goes from Petworth to Godalming , goes in a north - north - east direc- tion . I was resolved , be the consequences what they might ...
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... fine plantations in the Holt Forest , Wolmer Forest , the New Forest , the Forest of Dean , and elsewhere , the only possible argument against doing which being , that I may possibly take a ride round amongst their plantations , and ...
... fine plantations in the Holt Forest , Wolmer Forest , the New Forest , the Forest of Dean , and elsewhere , the only possible argument against doing which being , that I may possibly take a ride round amongst their plantations , and ...
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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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