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William Cobbett in about 1831.
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There are ten posts in The Copy Book credited to William Cobbett. (In the case of some authors, the list may include translations and paraphrases.)
1
An Englishman in Exile
By William Cobbett
Faced with a choice between silence, dungeon or exile, William Cobbett chose exile — and then had to make sense of it.
2
How to Learn a Language
When William Cobbett told his son James to be conscientious about his grammar lessons, he was drawing on hard-won experience.
3
Judges’ Wigs
On a countryside ramble in West Sussex, William Cobbett finds the weather turning against him.
4
Mrs Lock’s Radical Ride
William Cobbett was delighted with one young woman’s protest against Mr Pitt’s ingenious ways of raising money.
5
Of Hares, Hounds and Red Herrings
In January 1807, newspapers breathlessly reported that Napoleon Bonaparte’s rampage across Europe was at an end — but was it true?
6
‘God Never Sends Mouths Without Sending Meat’
Riding through Sussex, William Cobbett comes across a large family relaxing together in front of their charming cottage.
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