“Born amongst husbandmen, bred to husbandry, delighting in its pursuits even to the minutest details, never having, in all my range through life, lost sight of the English farm-house and of those scenes in which my mind took its first spring, it is natural that I should have a strong partiality for a country life, and that I should enter more in detail into the feelings of labourers in husbandry than into those of other labourers.”

— William Cobbett

‘To Mr. Attwood’, Political Register (5 May 1821), p. 343
1820s

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English pamphleteer, farmer and journalist 1763–1835

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