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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... suppose that the church was built about seven or eight hundred years ago , that is to say , the present church ; for the first church built upon this spot was , I dare say , erected more than a thou- sand years ago . If I had had time ...
... suppose that the church was built about seven or eight hundred years ago , that is to say , the present church ; for the first church built upon this spot was , I dare say , erected more than a thou- sand years ago . If I had had time ...
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... suppose Squire Twyford to be in the second rank upwards ( dividing the whole of the proprietors of land into five ranks ) . It appears to me that pretty nearly the whole of this second rank is gone ; that the stock - jobbers have eaten ...
... suppose Squire Twyford to be in the second rank upwards ( dividing the whole of the proprietors of land into five ranks ) . It appears to me that pretty nearly the whole of this second rank is gone ; that the stock - jobbers have eaten ...
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... suppose ) , and left nearly in the state in which it now stands , except that the ivy has grown up about it , and partly hidden the stones from our sight . You may see , however , the hour of the day or night at which the fire took ...
... suppose ) , and left nearly in the state in which it now stands , except that the ivy has grown up about it , and partly hidden the stones from our sight . You may see , however , the hour of the day or night at which the fire took ...
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... suppose to be twenty feet high . This place was not wanted when the labourer got twice as much instead of half as much as the common standing soldier . Here you see the true cause why the young labouring man is " content to exist upon ...
... suppose to be twenty feet high . This place was not wanted when the labourer got twice as much instead of half as much as the common standing soldier . Here you see the true cause why the young labouring man is " content to exist upon ...
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... suppose it , however , to be only fifteen , there would be , at the bottom , wood to make two locust PINS for ship - building ; two locust pins at the bottom of each tree . Two at the very least ; and here would be twenty - two thousand ...
... suppose it , however , to be only fifteen , there would be , at the bottom , wood to make two locust PINS for ship - building ; two locust pins at the bottom of each tree . Two at the very least ; and here would be twenty - two thousand ...
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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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