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    William Cobbett (9 March 1763 – 18 June 1835) was an English radical pamphleteer, journalist, politician, and farmer born in Farnham, Surrey. He was one...
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  • Cobbett is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Hilary Dulcie Cobbett (1885–1976), British artist William Cobbett (1763–1835), British radical...
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    Minall or Mildenhall, Wiltshire (1692), and canon of Salisbury (1675). William Cobbett (1763–1835) in his journal of 2 November 1821, while at Hurstbourne...
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    inadvertently. The term was popularized in 1807 by English polemicist William Cobbett, who told a story of having used a strong-smelling smoked fish to divert...
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    The Cobbett's Weekly Political Register, commonly known as the Political Register, was a weekly London-based newspaper founded by William Cobbett in 1802...
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    fearing and opposing radical causes and revolution. The radical writer William Cobbett was among those who attacked what they saw as Wilberforce's hypocrisy...
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  • British writers and essayists, including Edmund Burke, William Cobbett, William Blake, William Wordsworth, F. R. Leavis, George Orwell, and Christopher...
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  • agriculturist and political reformer William Cobbett is best known. At the time of writing in the early 1820s, Cobbett was a radical anti-Corn Law campaigner...
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    in the year 1791, by Mary Morgan, London, 1795; William Cobbett, Rural Rides, London, 1853. Sir William Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum: a History of the...
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  • The term was coined in the 1820s by William Cobbett, the radical pamphleteer and champion of rural England. Cobbett saw the rapidly growing city as a pathological...
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    walnut tree on his farm. In 1819, English agrarian radical journalist William Cobbett, who in 1793 had published a hostile continuation of Francis Oldys...
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    influential Cobbett Competition for chamber music composition, and endowed the Cobbett Medal for services to chamber music. Walter Cobbett was born in...
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  • brought him into contact with William Cobbett, then at the height of his earlier fame as a Tory martyr. While Cobbett was still in America, Wright acted...
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    "agonies of confusion on the brain". Instead he preferred the writings of William Cobbett and Sergius Stepniak, although he also read the critique of socialism...
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    British Isles. They were extremely inexpensive to make. English essayist William Cobbett wrote, "This rushlight cost almost nothing to produce and was believed...
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    a volcanic eruption in Indonesia. Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein. William Cobbett published his newspaper as a pamphlet. The British returned Indonesia...
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    large majorities in Parliament, with only a few Radicals (such as William Cobbett) voting against. The act was implemented, but the full rigours of the...
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    where he collapsed and died, leaving the cauldron trapped inside. William Cobbett wrote of the cave in his Rural Rides, recounting his visit of 27 October...
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    Willmer House, now the location of the Museum of Farnham. Politician William Cobbett and writer George Sturt were both born in Farnham, as was Maud Gonne...
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    Revolution, agrarian writers sought a way between liberty and tradition; William Cobbett, G. K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc were main exponents, while the...
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    extreme. The people dirty, poor-looking, but particularly dirty." — William Cobbett in 1823 when he rode to the Island Today there are still farms inland...
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    Constitutional History, 13. For the complete quote in context, see William Cobbett et al., eds., The Parliamentary History of England: From the Earliest...
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    time served in public houses as a simple, inexpensive meal. In 1815, William Cobbett recalled how farmers going to market in Farnham, forty years earlier...
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  • History. Thomas Bayly Howell, Thomas Jones Howell, William Cobbett, David Jardine (1811). Cobbett's complete collection of state trials and proceedings...
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    vinegar-wrapped blankets accompanied by mercury rubs, and cold baths.: 329  William Cobbett vociferously objected to Rush's extreme use of bloodletting, and even...
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    der Bourgeoisie zum Proletariat". Retrieved 6 October 2014. William Sambrook, William Cobbett (1973), ch. I "Merry England?" Jason D. Martinek. 'The Workingman's...
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    entered Parliament to support William Cobbett, whose election as fellow-MP for Oldham he helped to bring about. Like Cobbett, but unlike many other Radicals...
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  • fourth estate of the realm." In 1821, William Hazlitt applied the term to an individual journalist, William Cobbett, and the phrase soon became well established...
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    Cobbett was found "guilty, upon the fullest and most satisfactory evidence". The court sentence read: "The court do adjudge that you, William Cobbett...
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    dealers and the people were the same. In 1826, the English radical William Cobbett criticised in his Rural Rides the political economists' hostility to...
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