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... classes were ranged against the interests of the poor . He did not forget that Malthus was a parson , and that parsons were prominent on the bench when savage penalties were inflicted for breaches of the Game Laws ; that Wilberforce had ...
... classes were ranged against the interests of the poor . He did not forget that Malthus was a parson , and that parsons were prominent on the bench when savage penalties were inflicted for breaches of the Game Laws ; that Wilberforce had ...
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... classes away from rioting and towards discussion and organisation . Almost all that the working classes knew of the problems of the time they had learnt from Cobbett . Perhaps the greatest thing which he gave them was a renewed sense of ...
... classes away from rioting and towards discussion and organisation . Almost all that the working classes knew of the problems of the time they had learnt from Cobbett . Perhaps the greatest thing which he gave them was a renewed sense of ...
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... classes . There was a time when the activities of the Countess of Huntingdon suggested that it might be otherwise , and for some years Methodism was a fashionable pursuit among the Society of Bath and London , but it failed to take ...
... classes . There was a time when the activities of the Countess of Huntingdon suggested that it might be otherwise , and for some years Methodism was a fashionable pursuit among the Society of Bath and London , but it failed to take ...
Contents
Contents Acknowledgements 6 | 6 |
List of Illustrations | 7 |
The Age of Romanticism | 9 |
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