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" ... able working men, and. as many boys, sometimes assisted by the women and stout girls. What a handful of people to raise such a quantity of food ! What injustice, what a hellish system it must be, to make those who raise it skin and bone and nakedness,... "
Cobbett's Political Register - Page 719
edited by - 1826
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Cobbett's Weekly Register, Volume 59

William Cobbett - 1826 - 440 pages
...system it must be, to make those who raise it skin and bone and nakedness, while the food ancl drink and wool are almost all carried away to be heaped...fundholders, pensioners, soldiers, deadweight, and otherswarms of taxeaters ! If such an operation do not need putting an end to, then the devil himself...
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Rural rides

William Cobbett - 1830 - 766 pages
...system it must be, to make those who raise it skin and bone and nakedness, while the food and drink and wool are almost all carried away to be heaped...interesting valley. There are 29 agricultural 'parishes, the two last (30 and 31) being in town; being FISHERTON and SALISBURY. Now according to the " POPULATION...
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Cobbett's Two-penny Trash, Or, Politics for the Poor, Volume 2

William Cobbett - 1831 - 300 pages
...system it must be, to make those who raise it skin and bone and nakedness, while the food and drink and wool are almost all carried away to be heaped on the fund-holders, penlioners, soldiers, dead-weight, and othor swarms of tax-eaters ! If such an operation do not need...
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Rural Rides: In the Counties of Surrey, Kent, Sussex, Hants, Berks ..., Volume 2

William Cobbett - 1885 - 430 pages
...system it must be, to make those who raise it, skin and bone and nakedness, while the food and drink and wool are almost all carried away to be heaped...pensioners, soldiers, dead-weight and other swarms of tax eaters ! If such an operation do not need putting an end to, then the devil himself is a saint....
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Rural Rides in the Counties of Surrey, Kent, Sussex, Hants, Berks ..., Volume 2

William Cobbett - 1908 - 426 pages
...system it must be, to make those who raise it, skin and bone and nakedness, while the food and drink and wool are almost all carried away to be heaped...the devil himself is a saint. Thus it must be, or something like it, all the way down this fine and beautiful and interesting valley. There are 29 agricultural...
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Rural Rides in the Counties of Surrey, Kent, Sussex, Hants, Berks ..., Volume 2

William Cobbett - 1908 - 422 pages
...not need putting an end to, then the devil himself is a saint. Thus it must be, or something like it, all the way down this fine and beautiful and interesting valley. There are 29 agricultural parishes, the two last (30 and 31) being in town; being Fisherton and Salisbury. Now, according to the " Population...
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William Cobbett and Rural Popular Culture

Ian Dyck - 1992 - 340 pages
...system it must be, to make those who raise it skin and bone and nakedness, while the food and drink and wool are almost all carried away to be heaped...pensioners, soldiers, dead-weight, and other swarms of tax-eaters!18 This was town-based rather than class-based appropriation. All countrymen, whether labourers,...
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Rural Rides, Volume 2

William Cobbett - 2005 - 329 pages
...system it must be, to make those who raise it skin and bone and nakedness, while the food and drink and wool are almost all carried away to be heaped...putting an end to, then the devil himself is a saint. And yet there is an " emigration committee " sitting to devise the means of getting rid, not of the...
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