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COBBETT ON PARLIAMENTARY REFORM · 75 to bind him in allegiance , and when he is poor and hungry , to cast him off to starve , or to hang him if he takes food to save his life ! Cobbett came to believe that all the governing classes were ...
COBBETT ON PARLIAMENTARY REFORM · 75 to bind him in allegiance , and when he is poor and hungry , to cast him off to starve , or to hang him if he takes food to save his life ! Cobbett came to believe that all the governing classes were ...
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On the whole his influence was not revolutionary ; he was concerned to form a powerful public opinion in favour of reform to be achieved by parliamentary means . After 1807 Cobbett , Sir Francis Burdett , Major Cartwright , Orator Hunt ...
On the whole his influence was not revolutionary ; he was concerned to form a powerful public opinion in favour of reform to be achieved by parliamentary means . After 1807 Cobbett , Sir Francis Burdett , Major Cartwright , Orator Hunt ...
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tempered my ardour for reform : but if any plan could be contrived for throwing the representation fairly into the hands of the property of the country , and not leaving it so much in the hands of the large proprietors as it now is ...
tempered my ardour for reform : but if any plan could be contrived for throwing the representation fairly into the hands of the property of the country , and not leaving it so much in the hands of the large proprietors as it now is ...
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Contents
Acknowledgements | 6 |
List of Illustrations | 7 |
The Age of Romanticism | 9 |
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