Download or read book William Cobbett written by Morris Leonard Pearl and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book William Cobbett written by Morris L. Pearl and published by . This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book William Cobbett written by Morris Leonard Pearl and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book William Cobbett A Bibliographical Account of His Life and Times Etc written by Morris Leonard Pearl and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book William Cobbett a Bibliographical Account of His Life and Times written by Morris Leonard Pearl and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1971 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book William Cobbett a Biographical Account of His Life and Times written by Morris Leonard PEARL and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book William Cobbett written by Morris Leonard Pearl and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Opinions of William Cobbett written by James Grande and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 297 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the 250th anniversary of Cobbett’s birth in 1763, this book provides a selection of his writings - both published and unpublished - that highlight his talents, obsessions, and concerns.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 William Cobbett a Biography written by Edward Smith and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book William Cobbett written by Anthony Burton and published by White Lion Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the English radical, William Cobbett who was born in 1763 and died in 1835 and was considered to be the very embodiment of John Bull. Burton documents his activities and articles, court cases, bankruptcies and imprisonment in the light of this attitude.
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 William Cobbett Vol 1 of 2 written by Edward Smith and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from William Cobbett, Vol. 1 of 2: A Biography The following pages need no Preface, with regard to their subject. I am unwilling, however, to let the work go forth to the public without a renewed word of thanks, to those who have given me any sort of encouragement or assistance. My acknowledgments are especially due to the venerable daughter of Mr. James Swann, for the use of some letters; to the author of the "Handbook of Fictitious Names," without whose apt teaching in the art of Bibliography, the work might have wanted the interesting appendix; to Mr. Job Swain, one of the last survivors of Cobbett's personal friends, for some reminiscences; and to Mr. Ellis Yarnall, of Philadelphia, for copies of several letters, and for some suggestions which have enabled the author to throw additional light on the "Porcupine" days. 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.
Download or read book William Cobbett Vol 1 of 2 written by Edward Smith and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-10 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from William Cobbett, Vol. 1 of 2: A Biography The following pages need no Preface, with regard to their subject. I am unwilling, however, to let the work go forth to the public without a renewed word Of thanks, to those who have given me any sort Of encouragement or assistance. My acknowledgments are especially due to the vene rable daughter of Mr. James Swann, for the use Of some letters; to the author Of the Handbook Of Fictitious Names, without whose apt teaching in the art of Biblio graphy, the work might have wanted the interesting appendix; to Mr. Job Swain, one Of the last survivors Of cobbett's personal friends, for some reminiscences; and to Mr. Ellis Yarnall, Of Philadelphia, for copies of several letters, and for some suggestions which have enabled the author to throw additional light on the Porcupine days. 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.
Download or read book William Cobbett written by Edward Smith and published by General Books. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. I HAVE ALWAYS SHOWN MY ENMITY TO EVERY SPECIES OF PUBLIC FRAUD OR ROBBERY. Seven years of army-life had completed the drill of William Cobbett. Master of himself, in every sense of the word, his campaign was now to begin. Putting off his red-coat, of which he had been proud enough withal, he entered upon the last stage of that educational process which, sooner or later, was to bear some fruit. He had studied men in the world of books, and he had seen something of them in the circumscribed arena of one class, viz. the military. But of mankind as a whole he knew almost nothing: and he would blunder on, for long years, before getting that sort of wisdom. However, he came back from Nova Scotia with two closely-linked ideas uppermost in his mind?an intense affection for the soldiery and for the classes from which they were drawn, and the deepestRETURN TO ENGLAND. 57 disgust at the peculation which added to their natural privations. He had never read the newspapers, and was ignorant of politics; he did not know that the public service was at that period eaten into by corruption as far up as the Treasury Bench, and that the specimens of venality that he had witnessed were only examples of a system that pervaded all classes of officialism. In point of fact, he did not know that returning to England and obtaining his discharge, with the determination to expose peculation, he had set his foot upon a track which would in after-years give him the distinction of having mainly contributed to the disgrace, the utter confusion, of the race that plunder the people. Beyond all, he did not know that, far from getting any credit from any soul upon earth, the sure reward for raking up the misdeeds of the public plunderers was contumely and malignity to the bitterest deg...
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 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.
