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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... heard speak before . Seeing the good and commodious and capacious church , I could not help reflecting on the intolerable baseness of this description of men , who have remained mute as fishes , while they have been taxed to build ...
... heard speak before . Seeing the good and commodious and capacious church , I could not help reflecting on the intolerable baseness of this description of men , who have remained mute as fishes , while they have been taxed to build ...
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... heard of him makes me believe that he is worthy of this princely estate . But I cannot forget that his two brothers , who are now very old men , have had , from their infancy , enormous revenues in sinecure places in the West Indies ...
... heard of him makes me believe that he is worthy of this princely estate . But I cannot forget that his two brothers , who are now very old men , have had , from their infancy , enormous revenues in sinecure places in the West Indies ...
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... heard of all the lords , first or last ; but if I had ever heard of this one before , I had forgotten him . He lives down in the Weald , between the gunpowder establishments and Horsham , and has the reputa- tion of being a harmless ...
... heard of all the lords , first or last ; but if I had ever heard of this one before , I had forgotten him . He lives down in the Weald , between the gunpowder establishments and Horsham , and has the reputa- tion of being a harmless ...
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... heard of , of the timber kind , equal to this in point of quickness of growth . In parts of the country where hop - poles are not wanted , espalier stakes , wood for small fencing , hedge stakes , hurdle stakes , fold - shores , as the ...
... heard of , of the timber kind , equal to this in point of quickness of growth . In parts of the country where hop - poles are not wanted , espalier stakes , wood for small fencing , hedge stakes , hurdle stakes , fold - shores , as the ...
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... heard talk of Alfred the Great . Great apologies are due to the OLD LADY from me , on account of my apparent inattention towards her , during her recent , or rather , I may say , her present , fit of that tormenting disorder which , as ...
... heard talk of Alfred the Great . Great apologies are due to the OLD LADY from me , on account of my apparent inattention towards her , during her recent , or rather , I may say , her present , fit of that tormenting disorder which , as ...
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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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