'he was receptive to the radical anticlericalism of William Cobbett, T.J. Wooler and Richard Carlile... "These books seemed to be founded upon Scripture and Condemned all the sins of oppression in all those that had supremacy over the lower order of people and when I Compared this with the preceptive part of the word of God I began to Conclude that most if not all professors of religion did it only for a Cloake to draw money out of the pockets of the Credulous..."'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Mayett Print: Book
'I had read in Cobbett's "Advice to Young Men" a caution not to depend upon the Muses for substantial support ... he illustrated the sufferings of Bloomfield ...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Teer Print: Book
Upon on of the interminable book-stalls, or rather book-walls, which display their leafy banners along the quays of the seine, I picked up a Cobbett's French Grammar for a Franc and a pocket dictionary for another. A fellow lodger lent me a Testament and a Telemaque, and to these materials I applied doggedly from six in the morningtill dinner time. I read the grammer through first, and then made an abridgement of it on a small pack of plain cards ...
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Manby Smith Print: Book
'Milton established a habit of serious reading, which brought Bamford to Homer, Virgil, Shakespeare, the great poets, classic histories and voyages and, ultimately, William Cobbett's Political Register'.
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Bamford Print: Book
'C[oleridge] consulted ... [the Weekly Political Register] while working on the Friend ... '
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Serial / periodical
'merchant seaman Lennox Kerr ditched overboard his early experiments in authorship:"... writing isn't for the working man. It sets him apart. He isn't such a toiler if he knows too much or does things like writing. Even reading Shakespeare and the Bible and my Cobbett's Grammar put me under suspicion."'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lennox Kerr Print: Book
Read the last Nos of Cobbett to the 24th Feb he has no compassion for Lord Liverpool; The Elegy on Bric is as ludicruous as can be well concieved. He still persuades his readers to keep Gold when they get it. I have not followed this advice...
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp Print: Serial / periodical
Cobbett tells a very plausible tale of being deceived by the man who was to have been his surety...
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp Print: Serial / periodical
I just peeped into Cobbett last night but had not time to read much I looked over the Dialogue between the King and the seven sages... It is a curious concern is this same Dialogue and managed with a good deal of humour...
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp Print: Serial / periodical
Cobbett thinks that Mr Canning would not have pressed on the Corn Bill in the manner it is, if he had not been threatened...
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp Print: Serial / periodical
'I see Cobbett has been calling the toll collectors to account...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp Print: Serial / periodical
'Mr Sykes will not take any more of Cobbett's registers for the abuse heaped on Mr Canning and for the observations made on Mr Brougham's speech at Liverpool...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Sykes Print: Serial / periodical
'Re[ceived] a parcel from WM this night by the carrier, containing two of Cobbett's & a court calendar, I am glad to hear he is well, I expected that Cobbett's conduct at Preston had been blackened to the utmost, I should have liked to have seen him in Parliament but that is over...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp Print: Serial / periodical
'Recd this morning a small parcel from WM I think Cobbett's greatest antipathy at present...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp Print: Serial / periodical
'Recd a parcel from William... [Cobbett] seems to bear it admirably for he says it was a triumph...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp Print: Serial / periodical
'A customer of Old Willy's in the Leather and nail line, telling us he had heard Cobbett's register read lately, where he says in about a year or perhaps rather more from this time wheat will be at 3s 6d or 4s pr Bushell; I told him that I had heard that Cobbett was a false prophet...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: [A customer of Old Willy's in the Leather and nail line] anon Print: Serial / periodical
'Cobbett is quite entertaining in his Rural Rides, he indeed excels in rural descriptions; he sees as well as all may who do not shut their eyes, the poverty and degradation of what were once called the lower classes, then the peasantry...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp Print: Serial / periodical
'I have read all the Rural Rides of Cobbett he is very excellent at description, he has just opened on the Greek Patriots. I expect he will give them no quarter...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp Print: Serial / periodical
'Cobbett on the Corn laws is almost above himself it is the best exposition I ever saw of the frantic cry of the Agriculturalists that they bear exclusive burdens, just as if they were the sole consumers of all the fruits of the land.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp Print: Serial / periodical
'Recd a parcel from WM last night, containing new cravats. Cobbett is most fierce on Mr Hume, but what good will he do? For my part I am sorry to see the mighty fallen so low...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp Print: Serial / periodical
'Last night I sat down to read Cobbett, and very cold it was, but I was left by myself at the fire-side; I never have a great fire, I would rather have a little one and sit very close to it, which I always do when I have an opportunity - Cobbett does belabour Mr Canning and his furies.... He (Cobbett) still augurs evil from the Papersystem, how far he is right time will determine.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp Print: Serial / periodical
'Cobbett has rubbed down Sir Francis pretty roughly, it appears that when self interest is contrasted with Patriotism the latter in general gives way...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp Print: Serial / periodical
'While Cobbett has been at the Crown & Anchor amongst [the] Philistines they would not suffer him to speak...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Sharp Print: Serial / periodical
"And now, for the first time in his life, he met with plenty of books, reading all that came in his way, from 'Lloyd's Penny Times' to Cobbett's Works, 'French without a Master,' together with English, Roman, and Grecian history."
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Massey Print: Book
'It was in the autumn of 1818 that I first becam acquainted with politics and theology. Passing along Briggate one evening, I saw at the corner of Union Court a bill, which stated that the Radical Reformers held their meetings in a room in that court. Curiosity prompted me to go and hear what was going on. I found them reading Woller's Black Dwarf, Carlile's Republican, and Cobbett's Register. I remembered my mother being in the habit of reading Cobbett's Register, and saying she "wondered people spoke so much against it; she saw nothing bad in it, but she saw a great many good things in it." After hearing it read in the the meeting room, I was of my mother's opinion.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Group of 'Radical Reformers', who regularly met in Leeds Print: Serial / periodical
'Upon one of the interminable book-stalls, or rather book-walls, which displayed their leafy barrens along the quays of the Seine, I picked up a Cobbett's French Grammar for a franc, and a pocket dictionary for another. A fellow lodger lent me a Testament and a Telemaque; and to these materials I applied dogedly from six in the morning til dinnertime. I read the Grammar through first, and then made an abridgement of it on a small pack of plain cards... By these means ... I made rapid progress.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Manby Smith Print: Book
?A publication of a different description also fell in my way. Mr Hale was a reader of "Cobbett?s Weekly Register", and as I constantly saw the tract lying on the desk at the beginning of the week, I at length read it, and found within its pages far more matter for reflection than, from its unattractive title and appearance, I had expected to find there. The nervous and unmistakeable English of that work there was so withstanding. I thenceforth became as constant a reader of Cobbett?s writings as was my master himself, and was soon, probably, a more ardent admirer of his doctrines than was my employer.?
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Bamford Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
??we were soon in a free conversation on the subject of parliamentary reform. When objections were stated, they listened candidly to our replies, and a good-humoured discussion, half serious, half joking, was prompted on both sides. I and Mitchell had with us, and it was entirely accidental, a few of Cobbett?s "Registers" and Hone?s Political Pamphlets, to which we sometimes appealed, and read extracts from. The soldiers were delighted; they burst into fits of laughter; and all the copies we had, being given to them, one of them read the "Political Litany" through, to the further great amusement of himself and the company. Thus we passed a most agreeable evening and parted only at the last hour.?
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Bamford Print: Newspaper
?His [James Watson?s] mother, who was left a widow soon after he was born, obtained a situation at the parsonage, where she read Cobbett?s "Register" and "saw nothing bad in it". James himself was apprenticed to the clergyman to "learn field labour" but his indentures, owing to the reverend gentleman leaving Yorkshire for another part of the country, were cancelled before he had finished his time. Thereupon the youth set out for Leeds in search for friends and employment. While working in a warehouse, he too began to read Cobbett?s "Register" and "saw nothing bad in it". Besides Cobbett?s writings, he early made the acquaintance of the Radical literature of the day ? Wooler?s "Black Dwarf" and Carlile?s "Republican".?
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: James Watson Print: Serial / periodical
?[James Watson?s] mother, who was left a widow soon after he was born, obtained a situation at the parsonage, where she read Cobbett?s "Register" and "saw nothing bad in it". James himself was apprenticed to the clergyman to "learn field labour" but his indentures, owing to the reverend gentleman leaving Yorkshire for another part of the country, were cancelled before he had finished his time. Thereupon the youth set out for Leeds in search for friends and employment. While working in a warehouse, he too began to read Cobbett?s "Register" and "saw nothing bad in it". Besides Cobbett?s writings, he early made the acquaintance of the Radical literature of the day ? Wooler?s "Black Dwarf" and Carlile?s "Republican".?
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mrs Watson Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
'Now, however, they [workmen] clubbed their pence to pay for a newspaper, and selected the "Weekly Political Register" of that clever man the late William Cobbett. This journal was in the form of a pamphlet. It was chiefly filled with the letters of correspondence and the political disquisitions of the proprietor. The only news it contained was that which related to the naval and military operations of the British forces. The "Political Register" was soon thought to be deficient in matters of general interest. It was therefore exchanged for the "Courier", which in a short time gave place to the "Independent Whig". From this time the men were warm politicians - not indeed very well conversant with public affairs, but what they lacked in knowledge they made up by a rather large amount of zealous partisanship. When they were too busy to look over the newspaper, they employed me as their reader - an office whose duties I found to be very pleasant.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter, tailors, journeymen and apprentices at workshop Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
'Now, however, they [workmen] clubbed their pence to pay for a newspaper, and selected the "Weekly Political Register" of that clever man the late William Cobbett. This journal was in the form of a pamphlet. It was chiefly filled with the letters of correspondence and the political disquisitions of the proprietor. The only news it contained was that which related to the naval and military operations of the British forces. The "Political Register" was soon thought to be deficient in matters of general interest. It was therefore exchanged for the "Courier", which in a short time gave place to the "Independent Whig". From this time the men were warm politicians - not indeed very well conversant with public affairs, but what they lacked in knowledge they made up by a rather large amount of zealous partisanship. When they were too busy to look over the newspaper, they employed me as their reader - an office whose duties I found to be very pleasant.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
'Thus I became their [workmates] news-purveyor, ie. I every morning gave them an account of what I had just been reading in the yesterday's newspaper. I read this at a coffee shop, where I took an early breakfast on my way to work. These shops were but just then becoming general... The shop I selected was near the bottom of Oxford Street. It was in the direct path by which I made my way to work... The papers I generally preferred to read were the "British Press", the "Morning Chronicle", and the "Statesman". I usually contrived to run over the Parliamentary debates and the foreign news, together with the leading articles. ...My shopmates were much pleased at the extent and variety of the intelligence which I was able to give them about public affairs, and they were the more pleased because I often told them about the contents of Mr. Cobbett's "Political Register", as they were warm admirers of that clever and very intelligible writer.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
?A publication of a different description also fell in my way. Mr Hale was a reader of "Cobbett?s Weekly Register", and as I constantly saw the tract lying on the desk at the beginning of the week, I at length read it, and found within its pages far more matter for reflection than, from its unattractive title and appearance, I had expected to find there. The nervous and unmistakeable English of that work there was so withstanding. I thenceforth became as constant a reader of Cobbett?s writings as was my master himself, and was soon, probably, a more ardent admirer of his doctrines than was my employer.?
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Bamford Print: Unknown
'During this winter I fell into Company with some men in my journeys to and from my work that were of a Deistical principle these men had got several books that were written by Cobbet woler and Carlisle against all revealed religion and these men often put them into my hands and I at this time thought myself a sufficient Judge to read them without any danger of being drawn aside by them...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Mayett Print: Book
'In early life, I have said, my attention was turned to politics. My first impressions were for universality. "Cobbett's Register" and "Wooler's Black Dwarf" were the first works I purchased and studied on political economy. It was my custom every Saturday evening, after my work was over, to go to the Market Place, and from a stall there, to purchase the breathings of those men of mind.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Christopher Thomson Print: Serial / periodical
'Much is being said and written now-a-days about the influence of books on the formation of character; let me therefore mention that my prime favourites while at Tait's were "Cobbett's advice to young men", and Charles Knight's "Pursuit of knowledge under difficulties"; which I read over and over again with great zest, and, I hope, much benefit. As a matter of course, I also read "Tait's Magazine" regularly, making myself familiar with its contents even before publication; the elaborate reviews of many of the best books of the period affording me the opportunity of picking up a considerable amount of useful information. Curiously enough, the reading of the "Waverley novels" was to me a task of difficulty; and I am ashamed to say that I have only read few of them, "Guy Mannering", "The Heart of Midlothian", "The Bride of Lammermoor" and "St Ronan's Well". "Waverley", although attempted more than once, failed to attract.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: James Glass Bertram Print: Book
'Nearly the whole time from breakfast till Mr Legge's coming down, employed in reading Cobbett. More thoroughly wicked and mischievous than almost any that has appeared yet.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Windham Print: Serial / periodical
'Read papers, and last number but one of Cob. A little in the Milton. Licence for universal printing: and in Thucydides.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Windham Print: Serial / periodical
'Monday Jany. 19th. [...] Learn an Italian dialogue [...] Read three of Cobbett's Registers. In one
of these he mentions Mr. W-- Friend as a very able, firm, & worthy Man.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Serial / periodical
'Saturday March 13. Read Cobbett, which is a strange book to read with one's head full of the ruins of Rome.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
'Sunday March 14th. Read Cobbett'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
'Thursday June 10th. set out from Rome to Livorno [...] Arrive at Livorno Aquila Nera Thursday 17th. [June]. Stay there a week. [...] Remove to Villetta Valsovano near Monte nero Read Cobbett's Journal in America Birbeck's Notes on the Illinois Nightmare Abbey & the Heart of MidLothian by Walter Scott.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
'Mrs Graham, the maker of this hat, is a poor but industrious woman, about five-and-thirty years of age, resident with her husband and daughter, in a cottage belonging to a little farm called Myer, in the parish of Hoddam, Dumfriesshire...About four years ago she procured a loan of Cobbet[t]'s Cottage Economy from a Farmer of that district, and finding there some instructions about the plaiting of Leghorn Bonnets, she forthwith set about turning it to advantage. By means of Cobbet[t]'s figures & descriptions she succeeded in discovering the proper sort or rather sorts of Grass in the fields...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mrs Graham Print: BookManuscript: Letter
‘ … thank you immensely for "Friends" [W. W. Gibson], an unforgettable
book … My town-pride received a shock yesterday—and my pocket. Cridland
and I went to Salisbury, which took us both by storm. The Cathedral is not
so fine as Gloucester, but the surroundings thereof, and the town beat
ours … I bought Cobbett’s "Rural Rides", in Nelson 6d edition, there are am
getting on very well with it …’
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ivor Bertie Gurney Print: Book
‘Distant from us by 300 yards … snipers were continually firing, and rockets
… lit up the night outside … we had two days like that, and played Auction
Bridge, talked, read, smoked and went through a trench mortar strafe
together … it is impossible to read much in this new environment. "Antony
and Cleopatra" in the dugout and Cobbett’s "Rural Rides" in the vacant
spaces before [Le Sart, 25–31 May]—not many of those. O yes, and F. S.
Oliver’s "Ordeal by Battle", a striking book.’
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ivor Bertie Gurney Print: Book
