  CHAPTER I. " I looked back with pride to my waggon-driving grandfather. " CHAPTER II. "WHEN I HAD THE HONOUR TO WEAR A RED COAT." CHAPTER III. "I HAVE ALWAYS SHOWN MY ENMITY TO EVERY SPECIES OF PUBLIC FRAUD OR ROBBERY." CHAPTER IV. "I LIVED IN PHILADELPHIA." CHAPTER V. "HEARING MY COUNTRY ATTACKED, I BECAME HER DEFENDER THROUGH THICK AND THIN." CHAPTER VI. "PETER PORCUPINE, AT YOUR SERVICE!" CHAPTER VII. "AT LAST GOT THE BETTER OF ALL DIFFIDENCE IN MY OWN CAPACITY." CHAPTER VIII. "WHEN I LEFT THEM, I CERTAINLY DID SHAKE THE DUST OFF MY SHOES." CHAPTER IX. "MY FAME HAD PRECEDED ME." CHAPTER X. "I RESOLVED NEVER TO BEND BEFORE THEM." CHAPTER XI. "I TOOK THE LEAD, IN SINGING THE PRAISES OF PITT." CHAPTER XII. "THE THOUGHTS OF THE NATION ARE LIKE A CORK IN THE MIDDLE OF THE OCEAN." CHAPTER XIII. "I SAW THINGS IN ANOTHER LIGHT." WILLIAM COBBETT. A BIOGRAPHY. VOL. I. LONDON: J. R. Smith pinxit. F. Bartolozzi R.A. sculpsit. Mr. William Cobbett. WILLIAM COBBETT: By EDWARD SMITH. IN TWO VOLUMES. London: “It is not by his faults, but by his excellences, that we measure a great man.” G. H. Lewes (On Actors, &c.). “Fear never but you shall be consistent in whatever variety of actions, so that they be each honest and natural in their hour. For of one will, the actions will be harmonious, however unlike they seem.” R. W. Emerson (Essay on Self-reliance). “My good blade carves the casques of men, My tough lance thrusteth sure, My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure!” Tennyson (Sir Galahad). |
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