Author name: William Cobbett, M.P.

William Cobbett (9 March 1763 – 18 June 1835) was an English pamphleteer, journalist, politician, and farmer born in Farnham, Surrey. He was one of an agrarian faction seeking to reform Parliament, abolish "rotten boroughs", restrain foreign activity, and raise wages, with the goal of easing poverty among farm labourers and small land holders.

Brief History of the Remains of Thomas Paine

William Cobbett, M.P. / January 1, 1819

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From the Time of Their Disinternment in 1819. by William Cobbett, M.P. Down to Year 1846. [Edited by J. Watson, 3, Queen’s Head Passage, Paternoster Row, London, 1847] With the life and writings of this celebrated man we have nothing to do in this little work, which is merely to be a concise history of […]

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