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Rural rides

Rural rides more books like this

by William Cobbett

Travelling on horseback through southern England in the early 19th century, William Cobbett provides evocative and accurate descriptions of the countryside, colourful accounts of his encounters with labourers, and indignant outbursts at the encroaching cities and the sufferings of the exploited poor. Ian Dyck's new edition places these lively ...

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A History of the Protestant Reformation in England & Ireland

A History of the Protestant Reformation in England & Ireland more books like this

by William Cobbett

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: for refusing to comply with the request was to commit unqualified murder. Yet, without such murder, without shedding innocent blood, it was impossible to effect the ...

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Peter Porcupine in America more books like this

by William Cobbett

Peter Porcupine was the pseudonym for the Englishman William Cobbett, the most widely read pamphleteer and journalist in the early American republic. In this book David A. Wilson brings together seven of Cobbett's major American pamphlets with extracts from his newspaper writing and provides an introduction that locates him in the political and ...

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Rural Rides - Volume 2

Rural Rides - Volume 2 more books like this

by William Cobbett

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 ...

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Cottage economy

Cottage economy more books like this

by William Cobbett

William Cobbett (1763-1835) was at various times a soldier, a farmer, a radical activist and politician, and a journalist. At a time when the Industrial Revolution was dramatically changing the face of rural Britain, Cobbett was constantly concerned with improving the living conditions of the labouring classes. First published in 1821 as a series ...

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A Grammar of the English Language

A Grammar of the English Language more books like this

by William Cobbett

William Cobbett (1763-1835), author of Rural Rides, is (in the words of G. K. Chesterton) 'the noblest English example of the noble calling of the agitator'. A champion of the poor who had taught himself to read and write, his radicalism brought him into conflict with the authorities on many occasions, but he reserved a special kind of venom for ...

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The English gardener

The English gardener more books like this

by William Cobbett

A fifth title in the BLOOMSBURY GARDENING CLASSICS series. This is a new edition of the text originally published in 1829, and includes an introduction by Peter king which throws light on the history of gardening, and contains reference sections on growing fruit, vegetables and flowers today.

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Cobbett's Tour in Scotland

Cobbett's Tour in Scotland more books like this

by William Cobbett

William Cobbett, author of Rural Rides, published three years earlier, journeys north and finds, among others,Dunbar: ' a little sea-port apparently made for the express purpose of robbing Scotland of all its produce.';Edinburgh: 'the finest city I ever saw in my life';Glasgow: 'a city of the greatest beauty', with 'the finest, most convenient, ...

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Life of Andrew Jackson President of the United States of America

Life of Andrew Jackson President of the United States of America more books like this

by William Cobbett

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

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Paper Against Gold Or, the History and Mystery of the Bank of England

Paper Against Gold Or, the History and Mystery of the Bank of England

by William Cobbett

This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark ...

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The American Gardener

The American Gardener more books like this

by William Cobbett

Cobbett's 19th-century thoughts on gardening are still relevant today, and this reissued volume also contains a valuable introduction by Verlyn Klinkenborg.

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Life and Adventures of Peter Porcupine,: With Other Records of His Early Career in England & America more books like this

by William Cobbett

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Cobbett's England: a selection from the writings of William Cobbett more books like this

by William Cobbett, John W. Derry, England) Folio Society (London

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Selections from William Cobbett's illustrated Rural rides, 1821-1832 more books like this

by William Cobbett, Christopher Morris

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Rural Rides - Volume 1 more books like this

by William Cobbett

Upon beholding the masses of buildings, at Oxford, devoted to what they call "learning," I could not help reflecting on the drones that they contain and the wasps they send forth! -from "Burghclere (Hants), Sunday, 18 Nov." Son of an innkeeper, former soldier, champion of the working class, early anticorporate activist, and future Member of ...

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A Year's Residence in the United States of America more books like this

by William Cobbett

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Rural Rides: Volume One more books like this

by William Cobbett

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A History of the Protestant Reformation in England and Ireland V2 more books like this

by William Cobbett

In Two Volumes. This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, ...

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Advice to a Lover

by William Cobbett

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Cottage Economy: Containing Information Relative to the Brewing of Beer, Etc.; To Which Is Added the Poor Man's Friend; Or a Defense of the Rights of Those Who Do the Work and Fight the Battles (1833) more books like this

by William Cobbett

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 ...

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The Life of Thomas Paine V2: With a History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America, France and England

by Moncure D Conway, William Cobbett

To Which Is Added A Sketch Of Paine By William Cobbett. Definitive Source Book And Biography Of Thomas Paine, Author Of The Rights Of Man And The Age Of Reason.

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The Life of Thomas Paine V1: With a History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America, France and England

by Moncure D Conway, William Cobbett

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Advice to Young Men more books like this

by William Cobbett

In the passage which I have just quoted from chap. xxxi. of ECCLESIASTICUS, it is said, that 'wine, measurably taken, and in season, ' is a proper thing. This, and other such passages of the Old Testament, have given a handle to drunkards, and to extravagant people, to insist, that God intended that wine should be commonly drunk. No doubt of that. ...

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Advice to Young Men & to Young Women, in the Middle & Higher Ranks of Life more books like this

by William Cobbett

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William Cobbett: selected writings more books like this

by William Cobbett, Leonora Nattrass

This new edition makes an important selection of Cobbett's writings available to scholars in the fields of history, economics, politics, literature and the history of ideas for the first time, and includes full annotation and a biographical and analytical introduction. William Cobbett (1763-1835) was a prolific writer, best known as the anti ...

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