WIST Quotations

Cobbett, William -- A Grammar of the English Language, Letter 2 (1818)

Dave — Wed, 25 Oct 2017 01:02:08 +0000

Grammar, perfectly understood, enables us, not only to express our meaning fully and clearly, but so to express it as to enable us to defy the ingenuity of man to give to our words any other meaning than that which we ourselves intend them to express.

William Cobbett (1763-1835) English politician, agriculturist, journalist, pamphleteer
A Grammar of the English Language, Letter 2 (1818)
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Cobbett, William -- Advice to Young Men and (Incidentally) to Young Women, Letter 2, #54 (1829)

Dave — Thu, 06 Jul 2017 17:37:07 +0000

To be poor and independent, is very nearly an impossibility.

William Cobbett (1763-1835) English politician, agriculturist, journalist, pamphleteer
Advice to Young Men and (Incidentally) to Young Women, Letter 2, #54 (1829)
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Cobbett, William -- Advice to Young Men and (Incidentally) to Young Women, Letter 2, #58 (1829)

Dave — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 17:33:40 +0000

Thousands upon thousands are yearly brought into a state of real poverty by their great anxiety not to be thought poor.

William Cobbett (1763-1835) English politician, agriculturist, journalist, pamphleteer
Advice to Young Men and (Incidentally) to Young Women, Letter 2, #58 (1829)
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Cobbett, William -- Advice to Young Men, Letter 1, #40 (1829)

Dave — Wed, 08 Nov 2017 02:04:34 +0000

Money is said to be power, which is, in some cases, true; and the same may be said of knowledge; but superior sobriety, industry and activity, are a still more certain source of power; for without these, knowledge is of little use; and, as to the power which money gives, it is that of brute force, it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet, and of the bribed press, tongue and pen.

William Cobbett (1763-1835) English politician, agriculturist, journalist, pamphleteer
Advice to Young Men, Letter 1, #40 (1829)
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Cobbett, William -- Cobbett’s Political Register, Vol. 46 (31 May 1823)

Dave — Tue, 17 Oct 2017 21:18:03 +0000

Good government is known from bad government by this infallible test: that under the former the labouring people are well fed and well clothed, and under the latter, they are badly fed and badly clothed.

William Cobbett (1763-1835) English politician, agriculturist, journalist, pamphleteer
Cobbett’s Political Register, Vol. 46 (31 May 1823)
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