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" 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 101
by Washington Wilks - 1852 - 344 pages
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Education and Social Movements, 1700-1850

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...
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Life and Labour in the Nineteenth Century: Being the Substance of Lectures ...

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...
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The Social Philosophy of Carlyle and Ruskin

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...
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British History in the Nineteenth Century (1782-1901)

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...
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The New Larned History for Ready Reference, Reading and Research ..., Volume 4

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....
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The Life of William Cobbett

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...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 217

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...
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The Autobiography of Samuel Bamford, Volume 2: Passages in the Life of a Radical

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...
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A Grammar of the English Language: The 1818 New York First Edition with ...

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...
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Britain in the Nineteenth Century

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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