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"The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet." -- William Cobbett
William Cobbett (9 March 1763 – 18 June 1835) was an English pamphleteer, farmer and journalist, who was born in Farnham, Surrey. He believed that reforming Parliament and abolishing the rotten boroughs would help to end the poverty of farm labourers, and he attacked the borough-mongers, sinecurists and "tax-eaters" relentlessly. He was also against the Corn Laws, a tax on imported grain. Early in his career, he was a loyalist supporter of King and Country: but later he joined and successfully publicised the radical movement which led to the Reform Bill of 1832, and to his winning the parliamentary seat of Oldham. Although he was not a Catholic, he became a fiery advocate of Catholic Emancipation in Britain. Through the seeming contradictions in Cobbett's life, two things stayed constant: an opposition to authority, and a suspicion of novelty. He wrote many polemics, on subjects from political reform to religion, but is best known for his book from 1830, Rural Rides, which is still in print today.

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Total Books: 391
Advice to Young Men
Advice to Young Men (Hardcover)Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780554346304
ISBN-10: 0554346303
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Advice to Young Men and  to Young Women
Advice to Young Men and to Young Women [Incidentally] (Paperback)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781141269938
ISBN-10: 1141269937
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Advice to Young Men And  to Young Women in the Middle an
Advice to Young Men and to Young Women in the Middle An [Incidentally] (Paperback)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780554040479
ISBN-10: 0554040476
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Advice to Young Men and  to Young Women in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life
Advice to Young Men And Incidentally to Young Women in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life in a Series of Letters
Advice to Young Men And
Advice to Young Men And [Incidentally to Young Women in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life, in a Series of Letters Addressed to a Youth, a Bachel] (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780192122124
ISBN-10: 0192122126
Genre: Health, Fitness & Dieting
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Advice to Young Men and  to Young Women in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life In a Series of Letters Addressed to a Youth a Bachelor  a Husband a Father a Citizen Or a Subject
Advice to Young Men And  to Young Women in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life In a Series of Letters Addressed to a Youth a Bachelor  Husband a Father a Citizen or a Subject
Advice to Young Men  to Young Women in the Middle  Higher Ranks of Life
Advice to Young Men by William Cobbett
Advice to Young Men By William Cobbett [World Cultural Heritage Library] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781433090882
ISBN-10: 1433090880
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Advice to Young Men With an Introd by Henry Morley
Advice to Young Men with an Introd By Henry Morley (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781153230926
ISBN-10: 1153230925
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The American Gardener
The American Gardener (Paperback)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781150162503
ISBN-10: 1150162503
Genre: Crafts, Hobbies & Home
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The American Gardener A Treatise On The Situation Soil And Laying Out Of Gardens
The American Gardener A Treatise On The Situation Soil And Laying Out Of Gardens On The Making And Managing Of HotBeds And Green Houses
The American Gardener Or A Treatise
The American Gardener or a Treatise [1823] (Paperback)Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780548857854
ISBN-10: 0548857857
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The American RushLight By the Help of Which Wayward and Disaffected Britons May See a Complete Specimen of the Baseness Dishonesty
Autobiography
Autobiography (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780571081578
ISBN-10: 0571081576
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The Bloody Buoy
The Bloody Buoy (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781150619465
ISBN-10: 1150619465
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The Bloody Buoy Thrown Out as a Warning to the Political Pilots of America Or a Faithful Relation of a Multitude of Acts of Horrid Barbarity
Emigrant's Guide [Travel in America] (Paperback)Hardcover
English Gardener [Oxford paperbacks] (Hardcover)Paperback
A Grammar of the English Language [American Linguistics, 1700-1900] (Hardcover)
Poor Man's Friend [Reprints of economic classics] (Hardcover)
Rural Rides V 2 [Everyman's Library] (Hardcover)