Download or read book The Life and Adventures of William Cobbett written by Richard Ingrams and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A remarkably perceptive and vivid life of William Cobbett, one of England's greatest radicals. The early years of the nineteenth century were ones of misery and oppression. The common people were thrown into conditions of extreme poverty by enclosures and the Agricultural Revolution, and the long Tory administration of Lord Liverpool saw its task as keeping law and order at all costs. The cause of reform was a dangerous one, as William Cobbett was to find. Cobbett is best known for his Rural Rides, that classic account of early-nineteenth century Britain which has never been out of print. But he was a much greater figure than that implies, being the foremost satirist and proponent of reform of the time. He had an invincible stomach for provoking the deceit and vanity of the supposedly good and great, and had an abiding hatred of the establishment, or 'The Thing', as he christened it.

Download or read book The Opinions of William Cobbett written by Dr James Grande and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Politician, journalist, reformer, convict, social commentator and all-round thorn in the side of the establishment, William Cobbett cut a swathe through late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century British society with his copious and acerbic writings on any and every issue that caught his attention. Both a radical and a conservative, and with strong opinions on any given subject, Cobbett had a talent for controversial and pugnacious writing that echoes down the centuries and still rings fresh today. Commemorating the 250th anniversary of Cobbett’s birth in 1763, this book provides a selection of his writings - both published and unpublished - that highlight his talents, obsessions, and concerns. From corruption and Parliamentary reform, poverty and commerce, to patriotism and religion, the selections display Cobbett at his best - sometimes outraged and excoriating, sometimes sympathetic and reasoned - but always honest and witty. Divided into 14 chapters each dealing with a particular theme, the selections are contextualised so as to provide the necessary historical background for any readers who may be unfamiliar with the period. In so doing, the book not only brings to life the dynamic and rumbustious world of Georgian England within which Cobbett moved, but also reveals many uncanny parallels with modern concerns. Whether espousing political reform, promoting rural affairs or decrying a spiralling national debt, many of Cobbett’s opinions seem as relevant today as when they were first written. Certainly modern readers will find much here to educate, amuse and admire.

Download or read book Rural rides written by William Cobbett and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The life of William Cobbett Written by himself written by William Cobbett and published by . This book was released on 1816 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Life of William Cobbett written by William Cobbett and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Life of William Cobbett written by William Cobbett and published by . This book was released on 1809 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Cottage Economy written by William Cobbett and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A son of humble circumstance (his father was an innkeeper), a champion of the working class, and an early anti-corporate activist, William Cobbett was most vociferous in his ideas about what makes for a happy and productive peasant. In this 1821 classic of self-reliance and the efficient usage and management of the small farm, Corbett shares his instructions and philosophies regarding. the brewing of beer (and why the notorious "tea" is not an acceptable substitute). the making of bread (and why the "modern custom of using potatoes" to serve the same dietary purpose is deplorable). the keeping of cows, pigs, bees, geese, and other useful creatures. the growing of straw for making hats and bonnets. the building of an ice house. and much more.British journalist and radical WILLIAM COBBETT (1762-1835) published the weekly newsletter Political Register and is also the author of Advice to Young Men (1829), The Progress of a Ploughboy to a Seat in Parliament (1830), and Rural Rides (1830).

Download or read book The Life of William Cobbett written by George Douglas Howard Cole and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Life of William Cobbett written by George Douglas Howard Cole and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Life of William Cobbett written by George Douglas Howard Cole and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Life of William Cobbett Dedicated to His Sons written by William Cobbett and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Download or read book The Life of William Cobbett written by George Douglas Howard Cole and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Life of William Cobbett With a Chapter on Rural Rides by the Late F E Green With a Portrait written by George Douglas Howard Cole and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A History of the Protestant Reformation in England Ireland written by William Cobbett and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Advice to Young Men written by William Cobbett and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 1887 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Life of William Cobbett written by Edward Smith and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition shows us the incredible life and work of William Cobbett (1763-1835), an English author, independent journalist and Member of Parliament. As an intrinsically conservative journalist, he was frustrated by the shady British political establishment of the times and gave strong support to agrarians. He, with a popular agrarian faction, argued that reforming Parliament, including abolishing "rotten boroughs", unnecessary foreign activity and suppression of wages would promote internal peace and ease the poverty of farm labourers and smallholders. He relentlessly sought an end to borough-mongers, sinecurists and "tax-eaters" (overpaid and sometimes corrupt bureaucrats, public servants and stockbrokers), also dismissing British Jews in a typecast by the same token. Early in life he was a soldier and loyal devotee of King and country, but he later pushed for Radicalism, which helped bring about the Reform Act 1832 and his election that year as one of two MPs for the newly enfranchised borough of Oldham. His much-interwoven polemics cover subjects from political reform to religion. He argued that economic improvement could support growth in global population, as an anti-Malthusian. His writing coined the metaphor "a red herring".

Download or read book The Life of William Cobbett written by William Cobbett and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-06-20 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Life of William Cobbett: Dedicated to His Sons Ance, (for a voluminous book to pay its mere expenses cannot be very cheap) fall at once into the hands of that class for whom Cobbett most laboured and by. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.