Essential Writings Volume 1. William 1763-1835 Cobbett
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Essential Writings
Volume 1
WILLIAM COBBETT
Essential Writings 1, W. Cobbett
Jazzybee Verlag Jürgen Beck
86450 Altenmünster, Loschberg 9
Deutschland
ISBN: 9783849651763
www.jazzybee-verlag.de
CONTENTS:
OBSERVATIONS ON PRIESTLEY’S EMIGRATION. 8
A BONE TO GNAW FOR THE DEMOCRATS. 25
A NEW-YEAR’S GIFT TO THE DEMOCRATS; 63
REMARKS ON THE BLUNDERBUSS. 86
REMARKS ON THE PAMPHLETS LATELY PUBLISHED AGAINST PETER PORCUPINE. 101
FROM “PORCUPINE’S GAZETTE.”. 110
PETER PORCUPINE TO JUDGE SHIPPEN. 155
PRIESTLEY’S CHARITY SERMON FOR POOR EMIGRANTS. 162
LETTERS TO THE RIGHT HON. HENRY ADDINGTON, ON THE PEACE OF AMIENS. 164
THE ENGLISH PRESS AND BUONAPARTE. 204
“CAPITAL, CREDIT, AND CONFIDENCE.”. 253
EDITORS’ PREFACE.
The political writings of our late father are contained in exactly one hundred octavo volumes, namely, of “Porcupine’s Works” twelve, and of the “Weekly Political Register” eighty-eight; the former being a selection of pamphlets and articles written in a monthly publication, and articles written in a daily paper, at Philadelphia, from the year 1794 to the year 1800; and the latter being a weekly publication on politics, begun in the year 1802, and ended with its author’s life, in June 1835.
Having undertaken to abridge these two works, it is but right that we should fully and frankly state why we do it at all; what we propose to give in the abridged shape, at what times we shall publish, and to what extent the work will go; and, in order to do this fully, we will