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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... miles from Petersfield we passed through a village called Rogate . Just before we came to it , I asked a man who was hedging on the side of the road how much he got a day . He said , 1s . 6d . : and he told me that the allowed wages was ...
... miles from Petersfield we passed through a village called Rogate . Just before we came to it , I asked a man who was hedging on the side of the road how much he got a day . He said , 1s . 6d . : and he told me that the allowed wages was ...
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... miles from the mansion . We entered the park through a great iron gate - way , part of which being wanting , the gap was stopped up by a hurdle . We rode down to the house and all round about and in amongst the ruins , now in part ...
... miles from the mansion . We entered the park through a great iron gate - way , part of which being wanting , the gap was stopped up by a hurdle . We rode down to the house and all round about and in amongst the ruins , now in part ...
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... miles and a half , was through Lord Egre- mont's park . The morning was very fine ; the sun shining ; a sharp frost after a foggy evening ; the grass all white , the twigs of the trees white , the ponds frozen over ; and everything look ...
... miles and a half , was through Lord Egre- mont's park . The morning was very fine ; the sun shining ; a sharp frost after a foggy evening ; the grass all white , the twigs of the trees white , the ponds frozen over ; and everything look ...
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... miles round ; and this , after all , forms , probably , not a quarter part of what this nobleman possesses . And is it wrong that one man should possess so much ? By no means ; but in my opinion it is wrong that a system should exist ...
... miles round ; and this , after all , forms , probably , not a quarter part of what this nobleman possesses . And is it wrong that one man should possess so much ? By no means ; but in my opinion it is wrong that a system should exist ...
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... miles at least to get to it the other way ; but the great thing was to see the interior of these woods ; to see the ... mile further in these clayey lanes , when we renewed our inquiries as to our course , as our road now seemed to point ...
... miles at least to get to it the other way ; but the great thing was to see the interior of these woods ; to see the ... mile further in these clayey lanes , when we renewed our inquiries as to our course , as our road now seemed to point ...
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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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