CONTENTS.
Edward Smith
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CHAPTER XIV.
1805-1806.
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I never sat myself down anywhere, without making the Fruits and Flowers to grow
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1
CHAPTER XV.
1806-1807.
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I did destroy their Power to Rob us any longer without the Robbery being perceived
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24
CHAPTER XVI.
1807-1809.
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They naturally hate Me
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45
CHAPTER XVII.
1808-1809.
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The Outcry against me is louder than ever
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63
CHAPTER XVIII.
1809-1810.
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Compared with defeating Me, defeating Buonaparte is a mere trifle
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88
CHAPTER XIX.
1810.
“
The Folly, common to all Tyrants, is that they push things too far
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114
CHAPTER XX.
1810-1812.
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To put a Man in Prison for a Year or Two does not kill him
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127
CHAPTER XXI.
1812-1816.
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The Nation never can be itself again without a Reform
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149
CHAPTER XXII.
1816-1817.
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Between Silence and a Dungeon lay my only choice
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173
CHAPTER XXIII.
1817-1821.
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Whatever other Faults I may have, that of Letting go my Hold is not one
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198
CHAPTER XXIV.
1821-1826.
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They complain that the Twopenny Trash is read
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229
CHAPTER XXV.
1821-1831.
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I have pleaded the Cause of the Working-People, and I shall now see that Cause triumph
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249
CHAPTER XXVI.
1832-1835.
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I now belong to the People of Oldham
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275
CHAPTER XXVII.
1835.
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I have been the Great Enlightener of the People of England
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291
Appendix
:
Bibliographical List of William Cobbett’s Publications
305
Index
321
WILLIAM COBBETT:
A BIOGRAPHY.
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