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Excerpt from Rural Rides, Vol. 1: In the Counties of Surrey, Kent, Sussex, Hants, Berks, Oxford, Bucks, Wilts, Somerset, Gloucester, Hereford, Salop, Worcester, Stafford, Leicester, Hertford, Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridge, Huntingdon, Nottingham, Lincoln, York, Lancaster, Durham, And
It was for the sake of discovering the true state of affairs and appealing to others to help promote the proper remedies that Cobbett began to travel round England. He rode on relent lessly, even after Whig parliamentary reform in 1832 seemed merely to parody his expectations. The account of the last ride printed in these two volumes was penned on the eve of the first elections for the reformed Parliament. Although Cobbett himself was elected a member, the new 'collective wisdom, ' as he always called the House of Commons, proved no Wiser than the old. The system went on, and the Thing continued to grow. What has happened between 1832 and the present day gives a certain sturdy pathos to the main themes of Rural Rides. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
