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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... pound and two and a quarter ounces of bread for each of them ; and nothing more ! And this , observe , is one - third short ... pounds of bread ; and this , observe , is a vast deal better than the state of things in the north II A From ...
... pound and two and a quarter ounces of bread for each of them ; and nothing more ! And this , observe , is one - third short ... pounds of bread ; and this , observe , is a vast deal better than the state of things in the north II A From ...
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... pounds and a quarter of bread for six days in the week , and as he does not work on the Sunday , there is no sevenpence allowed for the Sunday , and of course nothing to eat : and this is the allowance , settled by the magistrates , for ...
... pounds and a quarter of bread for six days in the week , and as he does not work on the Sunday , there is no sevenpence allowed for the Sunday , and of course nothing to eat : and this is the allowance , settled by the magistrates , for ...
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... pound and a half of bread a day . " They looked hard at me , and then looked hard at one other ; and I , having trotted off , looked round at the first turning , and saw them looking after us still . I should suppose that the church was ...
... pound and a half of bread a day . " They looked hard at me , and then looked hard at one other ; and I , having trotted off , looked round at the first turning , and saw them looking after us still . I should suppose that the church was ...
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... pounds the acre . This cop- pice , at ten years ' growth , will be worth twenty pounds the acre ; and , at the next cutting , when the stems will send out so many more shoots , it will be worth thirty pounds the acre . I did not ask the ...
... pounds the acre . This cop- pice , at ten years ' growth , will be worth twenty pounds the acre ; and , at the next cutting , when the stems will send out so many more shoots , it will be worth thirty pounds the acre . I did not ask the ...
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... pounds it generally costs parents to have a boy taught this much of arithmetic ; how much time it costs also ; and , which is a far more serious consideration , how much mortifica- tion , and very often how much loss of health , it ...
... pounds it generally costs parents to have a boy taught this much of arithmetic ; how much time it costs also ; and , which is a far more serious consideration , how much mortifica- tion , and very often how much loss of health , it ...
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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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