[PDF] The Life Of William Cobbett Written By Himself eBook

Author : William Cobbett
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Page : 22 pages
File Size : 36,15 MB
Release : 2019-08-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780461169317

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Author : Edward Smith
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 20,84 MB
Release : 2022-11-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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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".

Author : William Cobbett
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 38,86 MB
Release : 2017-01-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781334959448

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Excerpt from The Life of William Cobbett, Author of the Political Register I returned once more to the plough, but.i. Was spoiled, for a farmer. I had, before my Portsmouth adventure, never known any other ambition than that of surpassing my brothers in the different labours of the field: but it was quite otherwise now; I sighed for a sight of the world; the little island of Britain seemed too small a compass for me.. The things in which I had taken the most delight were neglected; the singing of the, birds grew insipid; and even the heart-cheering cry of the bounds, after which I formerly used to y from my work, bound o'er the fields, and dash through the brakes and coppices, was heard with the most torpid indifference. Still, however, I remained at home till the following spring, when I quitted it, perhaps for ei er. 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."