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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... once noble mansion , from which the Countess of Salisbury ( the last of the Plantagenets ) was brought by the tyrant Henry VIII . to be cruelly murdered , in revenge for the integrity and the other great virtues of her son , Cardinal ...
... once noble mansion , from which the Countess of Salisbury ( the last of the Plantagenets ) was brought by the tyrant Henry VIII . to be cruelly murdered , in revenge for the integrity and the other great virtues of her son , Cardinal ...
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... once cut , and which was now in the state of six years ' growth . A road through it , made for the fox - hunters , was as straight as a line , and of so great a length that , on entering it , the further end appeared not to be a foot ...
... once cut , and which was now in the state of six years ' growth . A road through it , made for the fox - hunters , was as straight as a line , and of so great a length that , on entering it , the further end appeared not to be a foot ...
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... once . We then did several other little sums ; and by the time we got to Sutton , it becoming daylight , I took a pencil and set him a little sum upon paper , which , after making a mistake or two , he did very well . By the time we got ...
... once . We then did several other little sums ; and by the time we got to Sutton , it becoming daylight , I took a pencil and set him a little sum upon paper , which , after making a mistake or two , he did very well . By the time we got ...
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... once , to all that brilliant commerce with which that shining minister appears to be so much enchanted . All the silver and gold , all the Mexican and Peruvian dreams vanish in an instant , and leave behind the wretched cotton lords and ...
... once , to all that brilliant commerce with which that shining minister appears to be so much enchanted . All the silver and gold , all the Mexican and Peruvian dreams vanish in an instant , and leave behind the wretched cotton lords 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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