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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... poor creature here has sevenpence a day for six days in the week to find him food , clothes , washing , and lodging ! It is just sevenpence , less than one half of what the meanest foot soldier in the standing army receives ; besides ...
... poor creature here has sevenpence a day for six days in the week to find him food , clothes , washing , and lodging ! It is just sevenpence , less than one half of what the meanest foot soldier in the standing army receives ; besides ...
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... 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 was a scrutinising sort of look , mixed , as I thought , with a little surprise , if ...
... 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 was a scrutinising sort of look , mixed , as I thought , with a little surprise , if ...
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... poor creatures that have not half a bellyfull of food ? We had not breakfasted when we passed them . We felt , at that moment , what hunger was . We had some bits of bread and meat in our pockets , however ; and these , which were ...
... poor creatures that have not half a bellyfull of food ? We had not breakfasted when we passed them . We felt , at that moment , what hunger was . We had some bits of bread and meat in our pockets , however ; and these , which were ...
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... poor scolded broken - hearted child , who becomes dunder - headed and dull for all his life - time , merely because that has been imposed upon him as a task which he ought to regard as an object of pleasant pursuit . I never even once ...
... poor scolded broken - hearted child , who becomes dunder - headed and dull for all his life - time , merely because that has been imposed upon him as a task which he ought to regard as an object of pleasant pursuit . I never even once ...
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... poor little things have no idea of the utility of anything ; who are hardly sensible beings , and have but just understanding enough to know that it will hurt them if they jump down a chalk pit . I am sure , from thousands of instances ...
... poor little things have no idea of the utility of anything ; who are hardly sensible beings , and have but just understanding enough to know that it will hurt them if they jump down a chalk pit . I am sure , from thousands of instances ...
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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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