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William Cobbett

G.K. Chesterton

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Description:CONTENTSCHAPTER I THE REVIVAL OF COBBETTCHAPTER II A SELF-MADE MANCHAPTER III THE TRAGEDY OF THE PATRIOT CHAPTER IV REVOLUTION AND THE BONES OF PAINE CHAPTER V THE AMATEUR HISTORIANCHAPTER VI THE RURAL RIDERCHAPTER VII LAST DAYS AND DEATHExcerpt:CHAPTER I – THE REVIVAL OF COBBETTThis chapter is here called ‘The Revival of Cobbett.’ As originally planned, only a little while ago, it was to have been called ‘The Neglect of Cobbett.’ It is not unimportant to realise how recent has been the change. It is but a year or two ago that I had the great and (it is to be feared) the undeserved honour of reading a paper an the subject to the Royal Society of Literature on my admission to that body, which certainly consists almost entirely of men who know much more about literature than I do. It was a graceful formality on such an occasion for the least learned person in the room to lecture to all the rest. Yet on that occasion the chairman, who was much more of a literary expert than I am, re-marked on my having chosen an obscure and largely forgotten writer, just as if I had been lecturing on one of the last and least of the Greek sophists, or one of the numberless and nameless lyrists among the Cavaliers. Between then and now the change from neglect to revival has taken place. It is true that it is not until the first beginnings of the revival that we ever even hear of the neglect.Until that moment even the neglect is neglected. When I delivered the highly amateur address in question, the memory was already stirring, in others besides myself. But it is not out of egotism that I give this example; but because it happens to illustrate the first fact to be realised about the present position of Cobbett.More Reading:Other Books by G K Chesterton by ADB Publishing(The Original) As I Was Saying (The Original) Four Faultless Felons(The Original) Tales of the Long Bow(The Original) The Club of Queer Trades(The Original) The Everlasting Man(The Original) The Man Who Knew Too Much(The Original) The Man Who Was Thursday(The Original) The Napoleon of Notting Hill(The Original) The Paradoxes of Mr Pond(The Original) The Poet and The Lunatics Episodes in the Life of Gabriel Gale (1929)(The Original) The Return of Don Quixote(The Original) The Sword of Wood (1928)(The Original) The Trees of PrideBIOGRAPHIES:(The Original) Charles Dickens(The Original) George Bernard Shaw (The Original) Leo Tolstoy (The Original) Lord Kitchener (1917) (The Original) Milton Man and Poet (The Original) Robert Browning (The Original) Robert Louis Stevenson (The Original) St Francis of Assisi (The Original) St. Thomas Aquinas (The Original) William Cobbett (This Book)We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with William Cobbett. To get started finding William Cobbett, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: CONTENTSCHAPTER I THE REVIVAL OF COBBETTCHAPTER II A SELF-MADE MANCHAPTER III THE TRAGEDY OF THE PATRIOT CHAPTER IV REVOLUTION AND THE BONES OF PAINE CHAPTER V THE AMATEUR HISTORIANCHAPTER VI THE RURAL RIDERCHAPTER VII LAST DAYS AND DEATHExcerpt:CHAPTER I – THE REVIVAL OF COBBETTThis chapter is here called ‘The Revival of Cobbett.’ As originally planned, only a little while ago, it was to have been called ‘The Neglect of Cobbett.’ It is not unimportant to realise how recent has been the change. It is but a year or two ago that I had the great and (it is to be feared) the undeserved honour of reading a paper an the subject to the Royal Society of Literature on my admission to that body, which certainly consists almost entirely of men who know much more about literature than I do. It was a graceful formality on such an occasion for the least learned person in the room to lecture to all the rest. Yet on that occasion the chairman, who was much more of a literary expert than I am, re-marked on my having chosen an obscure and largely forgotten writer, just as if I had been lecturing on one of the last and least of the Greek sophists, or one of the numberless and nameless lyrists among the Cavaliers. Between then and now the change from neglect to revival has taken place. It is true that it is not until the first beginnings of the revival that we ever even hear of the neglect.Until that moment even the neglect is neglected. When I delivered the highly amateur address in question, the memory was already stirring, in others besides myself. But it is not out of egotism that I give this example; but because it happens to illustrate the first fact to be realised about the present position of Cobbett.More Reading:Other Books by G K Chesterton by ADB Publishing(The Original) As I Was Saying (The Original) Four Faultless Felons(The Original) Tales of the Long Bow(The Original) The Club of Queer Trades(The Original) The Everlasting Man(The Original) The Man Who Knew Too Much(The Original) The Man Who Was Thursday(The Original) The Napoleon of Notting Hill(The Original) The Paradoxes of Mr Pond(The Original) The Poet and The Lunatics Episodes in the Life of Gabriel Gale (1929)(The Original) The Return of Don Quixote(The Original) The Sword of Wood (1928)(The Original) The Trees of PrideBIOGRAPHIES:(The Original) Charles Dickens(The Original) George Bernard Shaw (The Original) Leo Tolstoy (The Original) Lord Kitchener (1917) (The Original) Milton Man and Poet (The Original) Robert Browning (The Original) Robert Louis Stevenson (The Original) St Francis of Assisi (The Original) St. Thomas Aquinas (The Original) William Cobbett (This Book)We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with William Cobbett. To get started finding William Cobbett, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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