At this time the writings of William Cobbett suddenly became of great authority ; they were read on nearly every cottage hearth in the manufacturing districts of South Lancashire, in those of Leicester, Derby, and Nottingham ; also in many of the Scottish... The Half Century: Its History, Political and Social - Page 101by Washington Wilks - 1852 - 344 pagesFull view - About this book
| Archibald Edward Dobbs - Education - 1919 - 284 pages
...this time (1816) the writings of William Cobbett suddenly became of great authority ; they were read on nearly every cottage hearth in the manufacturing...of Leicester, Derby, and Nottingham ; also in many ot the Scottish manufacturing towns. Their influence was speedily visible ; he directed his readers... | |
| Charles Ryle Fay - Great Britain - 1920 - 344 pages
...on: At this time the writings of William Cobbett suddenly became of great authority'; they were read on nearly every cottage hearth in the manufacturing...to its proper corrective — parliamentary reform. Riots soon became scarce, and from that time they have never obtained their ancient vogue with the... | |
| Frederick William Roe - Literary Criticism - 1921 - 364 pages
...edition." (Wallas, Life, 124.) Samuel Bamford, the radical, wrote of Cobbett's paper: "They were read on nearly every cottage hearth in the manufacturing...Leicester, Derby, and Nottingham; also in many of the Scotch manufacturing towns. Their influence was speedily visible. He directed his readers to the true... | |
| George Macaulay Trevelyan - Great Britain - 1922 - 470 pages
...this time [1816] the writings of William Cobbett suddenly became of great authority. They were read on nearly every cottage hearth in the manufacturing...and to its proper corrective, Parliamentary Reform. Riots soon became scarce, and from that time they have never obtained their ancient vogue with the... | |
| Josephus Nelson Larned - History - 1923 - 992 pages
...this time (1816) the writings of William Cobbett suddenly became of great authority ; they were read on nearly every cottage hearth in the manufacturing...manufacturing towns. Their influence was speedily visible.' Cobbett advocated Parliamentary Reform as the corrective of whatever miseries the lower classes suffered.... | |
| George Douglas Howard Cole - Great Britain - 1925 - 504 pages
...from Lancashire, " the writings of William Cobbett suddenly became of great authority : they were read on nearly every cottage hearth in the manufacturing...and to its proper corrective, Parliamentary Reform. Riots soon became scarce, and from that time they never obtained their ancient vogue with the labourers... | |
| England - 1925 - 900 pages
...Lancashire, that — " The writings of William Cobbett suddenly became of great authority. They were read on nearly every cottage hearth in the manufacturing...He directed his readers to the true cause of their suffering — misgovernment ; and to its proper corrective — Parliamentary Eef orm . Biote soon became... | |
| Samuel Bamford, W. H. Chaloner - Biography & Autobiography - 1967 - 602 pages
...plundered. At this time the writings of William Cobbett suddenly became of great authority ; they were read on nearly every cottage hearth in the manufacturing...to its proper corrective — parliamentary reform. Riots soon became scarce, and from that time they have never obtained their ancient vogue - with the... | |
| William Cobbett - English language - 1983 - 202 pages
...letters would read it to them. A cheap edition which evaded the tax was read, a contemporary informs us, "on nearly every cottage hearth in the manufacturing...Nottingham, also in many of the Scottish manufacturing towns."2' But his influence was not confined to the working classes. When Cobbett was imprisoned in... | |
| Howard Martin - History - 1996 - 422 pages
...of great authority; they were read on nearly every cottage hearth in the manufacturing districts ... Their influence was speedily visible; he directed...and to its proper corrective - parliamentary reform. Riots soon became scarce ... Cobbett's books were printed in a cheap form; the labourers read them,... | |
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