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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... give to these single men two gallon loaves a week , or , in money , two shillings and eightpence , and nothing more . Here , in this part of Sussex , they give the single man sevenpence a day , that is to say , enough to buy two pounds ...
... give to these single men two gallon loaves a week , or , in money , two shillings and eightpence , and nothing more . Here , in this part of Sussex , they give the single man sevenpence a day , that is to say , enough to buy two pounds ...
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... give the trees fifteen years to grow in ; and , in short , that the locusts will be trees when the ash are merely ... gives a hedge stake to last even two years . I should think that a very profitable way of employing the locust would be ...
... give the trees fifteen years to grow in ; and , in short , that the locusts will be trees when the ash are merely ... gives a hedge stake to last even two years . I should think that a very profitable way of employing the locust would be ...
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... gives way , the wind shakes the roof , and down it comes , or it swags , the wet gets in , and the house is rotten . In ships , the pins are the first things that give way . Many a ship would last twenty years after it is broken up , if ...
... gives way , the wind shakes the roof , and down it comes , or it swags , the wet gets in , and the house is rotten . In ships , the pins are the first things that give way . Many a ship would last twenty years after it is broken up , if ...
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... give him Robinson Crusoe ; and that had made him a passable reader . Then he had scrawled down letters and words upon paper , and had written letters to me in the strangest way imaginable . His knowledge of figures he had acquired from ...
... give him Robinson Crusoe ; and that had made him a passable reader . Then he had scrawled down letters and words upon paper , and had written letters to me in the strangest way imaginable . His knowledge of figures he had acquired from ...
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... give you not a single reason for any part of what they have done . Now this is really doing very little . The rule is soon forgotten , and then all is forgotten . It would be the same with a lawyer that understood none of the principles ...
... give you not a single reason for any part of what they have done . Now this is really doing very little . The rule is soon forgotten , and then all is forgotten . It would be the same with a lawyer that understood none of the principles ...
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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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