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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'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...'Richard Sykes William CobbettPolitical RegisterPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'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...Robert Sharp William CobbettPolitical RegisterPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Recd this morning a small parcel from WM I think Cobbett's greatest antipathy at present...'Robert Sharp William CobbettPolitical RegisterPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Recd a parcel from William... [Cobbett] seems to bear it admirably for he says it was a triumph...'Robert Sharp William CobbettPolitical RegisterPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'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...[A customer of Old Willy's in the Leather and nail line] anon William CobbettPolitical RegisterPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'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 degradat...Robert Sharp William CobbettPolitical RegisterPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'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...'Robert Sharp William CobbettPolitical RegisterPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'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 a...Robert Sharp William CobbettPolitical RegisterPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'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...Robert Sharp William CobbettPolitical RegisterPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'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 s...Robert Sharp William CobbettThe Political RegisterPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Cobbett has rubbed down Sir Francis pretty roughly, it appears that when self interest is contrasted with Patriotism the latter in general gives way...'Robert Sharp William CobbettPolitical RegisterPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'While Cobbett has been at the Crown & Anchor amongst [the] Philistines they would not suffer him to speak...'Robert Sharp William CobbettPolitical RegisterPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849"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 ...Gerald Massey William CobbettWorksPrint: Book
1800-1849'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, whi...Group of 'Radical Reformers', who regularly met in LeedsWilliam CobbettPolitical RegisterPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'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 ...Charles Manby Smith William Cobbett[French Grammar]Print: Book
1800-1849?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...Samuel Bamford William CobbettCobbett's Weekly RegisterPrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1800-1849?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...James Watson William CobbettPolitical RegisterPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849?[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 ...Mrs Watson William CobbettPolitical RegisterPrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1800-1849'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 j...Thomas Carter, tailors, journeymen and apprentices at workshopWilliam CobbettWeekly Political RegisterPrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1800-1849'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 j...Thomas Carter William CobbettWeekly Political RegisterPrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical



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