INTRODUCTION
1. It is the duty, and ought to be the pleasure,
of age and experience to warn and instruct youth and
to come to the aid of inexperience. When sailors
have discovered rocks or...
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The English radical journalist and politician William Cobbett (1763-1835) was an advocate of parliamentary reform and a critic of the new industrial urban age.William Cobbett was born at Farnham, Surr...
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William Cobbett was a British subject who fled to the United States in 1793 as a refugee from the violence of the French Revolution. While living in America, Cobbett became embroiled in the political ...
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Thomas Carlyle called William Cobbett "The pattern John Bull of his century, strong as the rhinosceros, and with singular humanities and genialities shining through his thick skin" (Essay on Scott, 18...
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Blunt, forthright, and insufficiently refined to please some contemporaries, William Cobbett continues to challenge modern assumptions. Some readers, regarding his style more highly than his politics,...
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Advice to Young Men
William Cobbett
William Cobbett