Category: Biographies
The town of Farnham is a hop-garden. It had, in olden days, one of the most important corn-markets in the south of England. Before that, it was a great clothing mart; and, early in Parliamentary history, was called upon to send representatives to the “Collective Wisdom.” But,...
The town of Farnham is a hop-garden. It had, in olden days, one of the most important corn-markets in the south of England. Before that, it was a great clothing mart; and, early...
11. CHAPTER II.From the point of view which Englishmen usually take, in speaking of success in life, it may remain an open question as to whether the hero of this story ever really attained it...
12. CHAPTER III.Seven years of army-life had completed the drill of William Cobbett. Master of himself, in every sense of the word, his campaign was now to begin. Putting off his red-coat, of w...
13. CHAPTER IV.The Quaker city may well be the pride of the American nation. Founded by William Penn, shortly after his settlement of Pennsylvania in the year 1682, it has become, after the la...
14. CHAPTER V.Nearly two years had elapsed, before Cobbett’s life was disturbed by any greater excitement than would be furnished by his daily pursuits as a teacher of the French language. Ev...
15. CHAPTER VI.Mr. Thomas Bradford’s Political Book Store, No. 8, South Front Street, is furnished with all the latest publications. The works of Paine, Volney, Godwin and others, fill his she...
16. CHAPTER VII.The popular clamour against the Government of Great Britain was now at its height. The very name of England was such a by-word, that even immigrants learnt to evade a direct con...
17. CHAPTER VIII.As a champion of the liberty of the press, Mr. Cobbett holds a place among the very foremost; and, indeed, a minor object of the biographer, in this history, is to establish his...
18. CHAPTER IX.The reader is probably aware, that your “public-instructor” who, at the close of the last century, essayed to lead his fellow-men, had no hold upon the daily press. An occasiona...
19. CHAPTER X.The _Times_ newspaper for July 8th, 1800, announced, under date of Falmouth, July 4th, the arrival of the _Lady Arabella_ packet from New York, _viâ_ Halifax; adding that, “on t...
20. CHAPTER XI.Mr. Cobbett’s facile pen could not remain completely at rest, whilst the project of a newspaper was yet only in the bud. On the 30th August he issued a sixth (and final) number...
21. CHAPTER XII.William Cobbett was now in his fortieth year,[1] in the prime of life, blessed with unfailing health, unimpaired talents, and habits of industry, and a sturdy sense of his indep...
22. CHAPTER XIII.The unmistakable success which had attended the publication of “Mr. Windham’s Gazette” (as the _Register_ was nicknamed) soon made a revolution in Cobbett’s plans for the future...