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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... side of the road how much he got a day . He said , 1s . 6d . : and he told me that the allowed wages was 7d . a day for the man and a gallon loaf a week for the rest of his family ; that is to say , one pound and two and a quarter ...
... side of the road how much he got a day . He said , 1s . 6d . : and he told me that the allowed wages was 7d . a day for the man and a gallon loaf a week for the rest of his family ; that is to say , one pound and two and a quarter ...
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... side of the road , surrounded by a low wall . The earth of the churchyard was about four feet and a half higher than the common level of the ground round about it ; and you may see , by the nearness of the church windows to the ground ...
... side of the road , surrounded by a low wall . The earth of the churchyard was about four feet and a half higher than the common level of the ground round about it ; and you may see , by the nearness of the church windows to the ground ...
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... side , and with the cheek drawn up from the left corner of the mouth , expressive of any- thing rather than a sense of inferiority to the squire , of whom , however , I had never heard speak before . Seeing the good and commodious and ...
... side , and with the cheek drawn up from the left corner of the mouth , expressive of any- thing rather than a sense of inferiority to the squire , of whom , however , I had never heard speak before . Seeing the good and commodious and ...
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... sides . There is a sort of town - hall here , and on one side of it there is the bust of Charles II . , I should have thought ; but they tell me it is that of Sir William Wyndham , from whom Lord Egremont is descended . But there is ...
... sides . There is a sort of town - hall here , and on one side of it there is the bust of Charles II . , I should have thought ; but they tell me it is that of Sir William Wyndham , from whom Lord Egremont is descended . But there is ...
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... side of the pond , a most numerous and beauti- ful collection of water - fowl , foreign as well as domestic . I never saw so great a variety of water - fowl collected together in my life . They had been ejected from the water by the ...
... side of the pond , a most numerous and beauti- ful collection of water - fowl , foreign as well as domestic . I never saw so great a variety of water - fowl collected together in my life . They had been ejected from the water by the ...
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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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