William Cobbett
The Life and Legacy of Britain's Radical Revolutionary (Vol. 1&2)By Edward Smith
Length18h 3m
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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".
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GenreBiography and Memoir
Length18 hrs 3 mins
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Publish dateAug 29, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1CHAPTER I. “I LOOKED BACK WITH PRIDE TO MY WAGGON-DRIVING GRANDFATHER.”
15CHAPTER XV. “I DID DESTROY THEIR POWER TO ROB US, ANY LONGER, WITHOUT THE ROBBERY BEING PERCEIVED.”
2CHAPTER II. “WHEN I HAD THE HONOUR TO WEAR A RED COAT.”
16CHAPTER XVI. “THEY NATURALLY HATE ME.”
3CHAPTER III. “I HAVE ALWAYS SHOWN MY ENMITY TO EVERY SPECIES OF PUBLIC FRAUD OR ROBBERY.”
17CHAPTER XVII. “THE OUTCRY AGAINST ME IS LOUDER THAN EVER.”
4CHAPTER IV. “I LIVED IN PHILADELPHIA.”
18CHAPTER XVIII. “COMPARED WITH DEFEATING ME, DEFEATING BUONAPARTE IS A MERE TRIFLE.”
5CHAPTER V. “HEARING MY COUNTRY ATTACKED, I BECAME HER DEFENDER THROUGH THICK AND THIN.”
19CHAPTER XIX. “THE FOLLY, COMMON TO ALL TYRANTS, IS THAT THEY PUSH THINGS TOO FAR.”
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6CHAPTER VI. “PETER PORCUPINE, AT YOUR SERVICE!”
20CHAPTER XX. “TO PUT A MAN IN PRISON FOR A YEAR OR TWO DOES NOT KILL HIM.”
7CHAPTER VII. “AT LAST GOT THE BETTER OF ALL DIFFIDENCE IN MY OWN CAPACITY.”
21CHAPTER XXI. “THE NATION NEVER CAN BE ITSELF AGAIN WITHOUT A REFORM.”
8CHAPTER VIII. “WHEN I LEFT THEM, I CERTAINLY DID SHAKE THE DUST OFF MY SHOES.”
22CHAPTER XXII. “BETWEEN SILENCE AND A DUNGEON LAY MY ONLY CHOICE.”
9CHAPTER IX. “MY FAME HAD PRECEDED ME.”
23CHAPTER XXIII. “WHATEVER OTHER FAULTS I MAY HAVE, THAT OF LETTING GO MY HOLD IS NOT ONE.”
10CHAPTER X. “I RESOLVED NEVER TO BEND BEFORE THEM.”
24CHAPTER XXIV. “THEY COMPLAIN THAT THE TWOPENNY TRASH IS READ.”
11CHAPTER XI. “I TOOK THE LEAD, IN SINGING THE PRAISES OF PITT.”
25CHAPTER XXV. “I HAVE PLEADED THE CAUSE OF THE WORKING-PEOPLE, AND I SHALL NOW SEE THAT CAUSE TRIUMPH.”
12CHAPTER XII. “THE THOUGHTS OF THE NATION ARE LIKE A CORK IN THE MIDDLE OF THE OCEAN.”
26CHAPTER XXVI. “I NOW BELONG TO THE PEOPLE OF OLDHAM.”
13CHAPTER XIII. “I SAW THINGS IN ANOTHER LIGHT.”
27CHAPTER XXVII. “I HAVE BEEN THE GREAT ENLIGHTENER OF THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND.”[1]
14CHAPTER XIV. “I NEVER SAT MYSELF DOWN ANYWHERE, WITHOUT MAKING THE FRUITS AND FLOWERS TO GROW.”
28APPENDIX. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL LIST OF WILLIAM COBBETT’S PUBLICATIONS.
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