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http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_27_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 841.14 | 860.03 | of these base selfish hard and dastardly dogs themselves pity them let them go for pity to those whom they have applauded and abetted the farmers i mean the renters will not now as they did in eighteen nineteen stand a good long emptying out they had in eighteen twenty two lost nearly all | 18.89 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450000 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_27_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 876.98 | 896.04 | these believe because they anxiously wish that the paper-money by means of some sort or other will be put out again while the ministers believe because they anxiously wish that the thing can go on that they can continue to pay the interest of the debt and meet all the rest of their spendings without one-pound notes and... | 19.06 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450001 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_02_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 2,245.94 | 2,261.09 | why i must confess that i have no recollection of them but then do i not make sermons myself at about two miles from inkpen we came to the end of our pilgrimage the farm which was mr tull's where he used the first drill that ever was used where he practised his husbandry | 15.15 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450002 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_17_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 1,524.95 | 1,539.09 | he died in about a year or so afterwards left to his own family about twenty thousand pounds and to his ghostly guide the holy robert fellowes all the rest of his immense fortune which as i have been told amounts to more than a quarter of a million of money | 14.14 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450003 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_27_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 2,683.67 | 2,700.86 | so that here is a fall of one-half in real relative price that is to say the farmer while he has the same rent to pay that he paid last year has only half as much money to receive for cheese as he received for cheese last year and observe on some farms cheese is almost the only saleable produce | 17.19 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450004 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_19_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 1,025.16 | 1,037.47 | while a very pretty and modest girl waited on him to produce the divers bottles jars and kegs i wonder whether alfred had a thought of anything like this when he was clearing england from her oppressors | 12.31 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450005 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_28_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 1,916.05 | 1,929.33 | but i cannot quit this spot even for the present without asking the scotch population mongers and malthus and his crew and especially george chalmers if he should yet be creeping about upon the face of the earth | 13.28 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450006 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_12_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 1,888.19 | 1,903.9 | let them therefore now take the full benefit of the measures of pitt and his crew they would fain have us believe that the calamities they endure do not arise from the acts of the government what do they arise from then the jacobins did not contract the debt of eight hundred million pounds of sterling | 15.71 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450007 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_24_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 2,370.61 | 2,387.66 | everywhere you see the indubitable marks of decay in mansions in parsonage houses and in people nothing can so strongly depict the great decay of the villages as the state of the parsonage houses which are so many parcels of public property and to prevent the dilapidation of which there are laws so strict | 17.05 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450008 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_22_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 2,080.42 | 2,096.67 | but they are now sent almost wholly away instead of remaining as formerly to be in great part consumed in these twenty-nine parishes the stars in my map mark the spots where manor-houses or gentlemen's mansions formerly stood and stood too only about sixty years ago | 16.25 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450009 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_09_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 1,862.7 | 1,877.08 | and this i think the frankest and fairest way i wish to see many people and to talk to them and there are a great many people who wish to see and to talk to me what better reason can be given for a man's going about the country and dining at fairs and markets | 14.38 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450010 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_33_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 471.16 | 490.69 | that therefore it is the taxes that make their wages insufficient for their support and that compel them to apply for aid to the poor-rates that knowing these things they feel indignant at hearing themselves described as paupers while so many thousands of idlers for whose support they pay taxes are called noble lords a... | 19.53 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450011 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_29_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 1,097.19 | 1,113.85 | this was nothing new to me for i was well informed of it several years ago though i had never heard him speak of it in my life when he came to this place the common wages of day-labouring men were thirteen shillings a week and the wages of carpenters bricklayers and other tradesmen were in proportion | 16.66 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450012 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_03_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 238.11 | 256.2 | this chatham has had some monstrous wens stuck on to it by the lavish expenditure of the war these will moulder away it is curious enough that i should meet with a gentleman in an inn at chatham to give me a picture of the house distress in that enormous wen which during the war was stuck on to portsmouth | 18.09 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450013 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_28_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 136.97 | 153.97 | but at last i grew impatient for modesty here or modesty there i was not to be penned up and starved so after having shaved and dressed and got ready to go down i thrusted george out a little before me into the other room and through we pushed previously resolving of course not to look towards the bed that was there | 17 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450014 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_25_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 330.02 | 343.03 | what do you call that stealing and would you punish a man a poor man and therefore in all likelihood a hungry man too and moreover an old man do you set up a hue-and-cry after and would you punish such a man for taking a few cabbages | 13.01 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450015 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_32_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 2,147.25 | 2,165.31 | the degrading punishment of burial in cross-roads was abolished and now when so many peers and great men have taken to wife play actresses which the law termed vagrants that term as applied to the children of melpomene and thalia is abolished laud we the gods that our rulers cannot after all divest themselves of flesh ... | 18.06 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450016 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_08_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 937.11 | 954.72 | which is one of those things which nature herself would almost seem to have provided for drawing off the matter and giving occasional relief to the overcharged wen i have traversed to-day what i think may be called an average of england as to corn-crops some of the best certainly and pretty nearly some of the worst | 17.61 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450017 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_11_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 2,619.65 | 2,634.89 | the wheels which this law orders to be used on turnpike roads on pain of enormous toll cannot be used on the cross-roads throughout more than nine-tenths of the kingdom to make these roads and the drove lanes the private roads of farms fit for the cylindrical wheels described in this bill | 15.24 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450018 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_05_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 1,110.18 | 1,126.01 | the opening of the birch leaves is the signal for the pheasant to begin to crow for the blackbird to whistle and the thrush to sing and just when the oak buds begin to look reddish and not a day before the whole tribe of finches burst forth in songs from every bough | 15.83 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450019 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_29_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 473.38 | 488.1 | and observe the parishes could on an average contain no more each than two thousand nine hundred and sixty six acres of land not a very large farm so that here was a parish church to every large farm unless these historians are all fools and liars | 14.72 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450020 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_34_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 2,246.22 | 2,257.25 | it is the using of it as a substitute for bread and for meat that i have deprecated it and when the irish poet dr drennen called it the lazy root and the root of misery he gave it its true character | 11.03 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450021 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_11_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 1,386.49 | 1,401.34 | these have done enough in all conscience or at least they have done enough to satisfy me i want to see some fresh faces and to hear a change of some sort or other in the sounds a hear hear coming everlastingly from the same mouths is what i for my part am tired of | 14.85 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450022 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_16_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 435.51 | 446.23 | let him ask what this cavern was for what that ditch was for what this tank was for and why all these horrible holes and hiding-places at an expense of millions upon millions | 10.72 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450023 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_09_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 1,254.47 | 1,266.4 | but that was not all this was the spot where i was receiving my education and this was the sort of education and i am perfectly satisfied that if i had not received such an education or something very much like it | 11.93 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450024 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_21_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 1,422.28 | 1,438.85 | the keeping up the price of them for the present may assist some of the actual speculators but it can do nothing for the speculation in the end and this speculation which was wholly an effect of the small-note bill will finally have a most ruinous effect how is it to be otherwise | 16.57 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450025 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_25_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 1,489.8 | 1,502.85 | i prefer governments like those of edward i of england and st louis of france cocks as towards their enemies and rivals and chickens as towards their own people precisely the reverse of our modern country gentlemen as they call themselves | 13.05 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450026 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_34_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 28.2 | 40.5 | just as i was closing my third lecture on saturday night at bristol to a numerous and most respectable audience the news of the above event the death of george the fourth arrived | 12.3 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450027 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_27_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 684.56 | 704.13 | the tenant told him that mr cobbett had been right about this matter what exclaimed he i hope you do not read cobbett he will ruin you and he would ruin us all he would introduce anarchy confusion and destruction of property oh no jolterhead there is no destruction of property matter the philosophers say is indestructi... | 19.57 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450028 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_06_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 919.58 | 934 | oh the envy of surrounding nations and admiration of the world oh what a glorious constitution oh what a happy country impudent radicals to want to reform a parliament under which men enjoy such blessings | 14.42 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450029 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_06_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 1,066.44 | 1,086.31 | a mere tool in the hands of two snap-dragon whig lawyers whose greediness and folly i have so often had to expose and which paper is maintained by a contrivance which i will amply expose in my next i must before i insert this speech remark that mr ellman the younger has to a gentleman whom i know to be incapable of fal... | 19.87 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450030 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_34_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 1,807.94 | 1,820.68 | and when i got down into the vale of hexham itself there i found the oak tree certain proof of a milder atmosphere for the oak though amongst the hardest woods is amongst the tenderest of plants known as natives of our country | 12.74 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450031 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_31_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 2,052.93 | 2,068.92 | we went on monday afternoon to crowland where we were most kindly lodged and entertained at the houses of two gentlemen to whom also we were personally perfect strangers and in the evening i addressed a very large assemblage of most respectable farmers and others in this once famous town | 15.99 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450032 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_17_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 331.64 | 350.02 | then if this sort of force be insufficient to obtain him enough to eat and to keep him warm is it surprising if he think it no great offence against god who created no man to starve to use another sort of force more within his own control is it in short surprising if he resort to theft and robbery | 18.38 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450033 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_03_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 228.04 | 238.11 | this at the out-set of life gave me a high opinion of the judgment and justice of the female sex an opinion which has been confirmed by the observations of my whole life | 10.07 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450034 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_17_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 2,107.8 | 2,120.14 | that is the age they begin at in talking during the game season of one year about the game and about sporting exploits i verily believe that it would amount upon an average to six times as much as all the other talk put together | 12.34 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450035 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_04_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 228.37 | 246.84 | he has a much larger crop in the transplanted than in the drilled part but if it had been a fly year he might have had none in the drilled part while in all probability the crop in the transplanted part would have been better than it now is seeing that a wet summer though favourable to the hitting of the swedes | 18.47 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450036 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_29_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 488.1 | 501.87 | i defy any one to say that i make hazardous assertions i have plainly described the ancient boundaries there are the maps any one can with scale and compass measure the area as well as i can i have taken the statements of historians as they call themselves | 13.77 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450037 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_16_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 1,066.66 | 1,083.73 | soon after crossing the river i passed by a place for making salt and could not help recollecting that there are no excisemen in these salt-making places in france that before the revolution the french were most cruelly oppressed by the duties on salt that they had to endure on that account the most horrid tyranny that... | 17.07 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450038 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_08_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 954.72 | 973.32 | my observation as to the wheat is that it will be a fair and average crop and extremely early because though it is not a heavy crop though the ears are not long they will be full and the earliness seems to preclude the possibility of blight and to ensure plump grain the barley and oats must upon an average be a light c... | 18.6 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450039 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_24_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 1,194.8 | 1,206.77 | there is a dairy here too and beautifully kept when this stall is full of oxen and they all fat how it would make a french farmer stare it would make even a yankee think that old england was a respectable mother after all | 11.97 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450040 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_34_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 2,963.83 | 2,982.03 | blind and thoughtless must that man be who imagines that all but farms in the south are unproductive i much question whether taking a strip three miles each way from the road coming from newcastle to alnwick an equal quantity of what is called waste ground together with the cottages that skirt it do not exceed such str... | 18.2 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450041 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_32_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 1,130.34 | 1,143.8 | ah sir but master is york too and that of the yorkshire boy who seeing a gentleman eating some eggs asked the cook to give him a little salt and upon being asked what he could want with salt he said perhaps that gentleman may give me an egg presently | 13.46 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450042 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_09_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 1,075.55 | 1,095 | the stem or shaft is short that is to say it is short before you come to the first limbs but it is full thirty feet round at about eight or ten feet from the ground out of the stem there come not less than fifteen or sixteen limbs many of which are from five to ten feet round and each of which would in fact be consider... | 19.45 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450043 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_12_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 3,250.68 | 3,269.34 | no beans here no peas scarcely any oats wheat barley and turnips the swedish turnips not so good as on the south downs and near funtington but the wheat full as good rather better and the barley as good as it is possible to be in looking at these crops one wonders whence are to come the hands to clear them off | 18.66 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450044 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_15_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 481.07 | 492.74 | and as nobody is so beastly as to trim trees up like the elms near the wen the country has no flat spot in it yet the hills are not high my road was a gentle rise or a gentle descent all the way | 11.67 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450045 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_34_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 2,389.71 | 2,409.37 | as a sort of reward for having thus contributed to this very rational source of his pleasure mr donkin was good enough to give me an elegant copy of the fables of the celebrated bewick who was once a native of newcastle and an honour to the town and whose books i had had from the time that my children began to look at ... | 19.66 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450046 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_12_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 1,466.64 | 1,480.43 | the river goes down to arundale and together with the valley that it runs through gives the town its name this valley which is very pretty and which winds about a good deal is the dale of the arun and the town is the town of the arun dale | 13.79 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450047 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_20_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 2,244.04 | 2,261.48 | the two parts of a park pailing which give way first are the parts of the post that meet the ground and the pins which hold the rails to the post both these rot long before the pailing rots now all this is avoided by the use of locust as sills as joists as posts as frames and as pins | 17.44 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450048 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_22_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 3,122.2 | 3,132.8 | this netheravon was formerly a great lordship and in the parish there were three considerable mansion-houses besides the one near the church these mansions are all down now | 10.6 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450049 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_32_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 568.33 | 580.31 | milton in his description of paradise has not omitted the song of earliest birds however everything taken together here in lincolnshire are more good things than man could have had the conscience to ask of god | 11.98 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450050 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_25_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 2,654.52 | 2,672.82 | ah but the hares and the pheasants and the wild ducks yes but the delight of seeing prosperity robinson hang his head for shame the delight of beholding the tormenting embarrassments of those who have so long retained crowds of base miscreants to revile me the delight of ousting spitten upon stanley and bound over wood | 18.3 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450051 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_22_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 862.53 | 880.39 | they contain from five to fifteen banging wheat-ricks besides barley ricks and hay-ricks and also besides the contents of the barns many of which exceed a hundred some two hundred and i saw one at pewsey and another at fittleton each of which exceeded two hundred and fifty feet in length | 17.86 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450052 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_14_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 529.36 | 546.18 | quails assemble in flocks like larks starlings or rooks partridges keep in distinct coveys that is to say the brood lives distinct from all other broods until the ensuing spring when it forms itself into pairs and separates nothing can be a distinction more clear than this | 16.82 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450053 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_24_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 1,175.8 | 1,194.8 | it is a very pretty spot all taken together it is chiefly grazing land and though the making of cheese and bacon is i dare say the most profitable part of the farming here lord folkestone fats oxen and has a stall for it which ought to be shown to foreigners instead of the spinning jennies a fat ox is a finer thing tha... | 19 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450054 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_23_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 3,035.91 | 3,048.34 | and in whose park pond i saw what i never saw before namely some black swans they are not nearly so large as the white nor are they so stately in their movements they are a meaner bird | 12.43 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450055 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_07_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 196.93 | 212.68 | the fields on the left seem to have been enclosed by act of parliament and they certainly are the most beautiful tract of fields that i ever saw their extent may be from ten to thirty acres each divided by quick-set hedges exceedingly well planted and raised | 15.75 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450056 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_34_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 1,079.69 | 1,097.88 | while the sides rising from it were covered with corn sometimes a hundred acres of wheat in one single piece while the stack-yards were still well stored from the previous harvest if john scott eldon's countrymen could behold those things their quick sightedness would soon discover why poor-rates should have increased ... | 18.19 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450057 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_21_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 359.78 | 376.62 | and i could not see his countenance so said i you must now begin to learn something and you must begin with arithmetic he had learned from mere play to read being first set to work of his own accord to find out what was said about thurtell when all the world was talking and reading about | 16.84 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450058 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_09_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 1,821.85 | 1,835.79 | they do not authorize justices of the peace to kill us because we meet to dine without their permission but i do not like dinner meetings on my account i like much better to go and fall in with the lads of the land or with anybody else at their own places of resort | 13.94 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450059 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_12_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 320.18 | 334.88 | the plum is equally fine and even the blackthorn which is the hedge plum has a bloom finer than i ever saw it have before it is rather early to offer any opinion as to the crop of corn but if i were compelled to bet upon it i would bet upon a good crop | 14.7 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450060 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_11_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 226.06 | 243.84 | these hangers are woods on the sides of very steep hills the trees and underwood hang in some sort to the ground instead of standing on it hence these places are called hangers from the summit of that which i had now to descend i looked down upon the villages of hawkley greatham selborne and some others | 17.78 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450061 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_18_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 1,546.49 | 1,564.2 | this was to us what the discovery of a canal across the isthmus of darien would be to a ship in the gulf of mexico wanting to get into the pacific without doubling cape horne a beautiful road we found it i should suppose the best part of a mile long perfectly straight the surface sound and smooth about eight feet wide | 17.71 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450062 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_33_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 2,028.17 | 2,038.62 | here is the real cause of the tommy system and if mr littleton really wishes to put an end to it let him prevail upon the parliament to take off taxes to the amount of forty millions a year | 10.45 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450063 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_08_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 379.41 | 395.96 | the hedges are now full of the shepherd's rose honeysuckles and all sorts of wild flowers so that you are upon a grass walk with this most beautiful of all flower gardens and shrubberies on your one hand and with the corn on the other and thus you go from field to field on foot or on horseback | 16.55 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450064 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_21_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 2,017.09 | 2,036.28 | unless upheld by untoward seasons or by an issue of assignats for mind it would be no joke no sham this time it would be an issue of as real as bona fide assignats as ever came from the mint of any set of rascals that ever robbed and enslaved a people in the names of liberty and law | 19.19 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450065 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_21_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 1,587.93 | 1,598.13 | but let us look at the united states for they have a debt and a debt is a debt and this debt of the united states is often cited as an apology for ours | 10.2 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450066 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_12_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 3,100.47 | 3,110.63 | oh exclaimed i that my lord liverpool that my much respected stern path of duty man could but see that wheat which god and the seedsman intended to be white | 10.16 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450067 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_07_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 227.46 | 239.52 | even here however i saw but few swedish turnips and those not good nor did i see any wheat drilled and observed that in many parts the broad-cast sowing had been performed in a most careless manner | 12.06 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450068 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_31_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 1,619.12 | 1,632.06 | he has now a wife and several children is a very nice-looking and appears to be a hard-working man and to bear an excellent character but how was i to harangue for i was determined not to quit ely without something of that sort | 12.94 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450069 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_01_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 1,546.38 | 1,565.42 | and fourteen pounds in addition at five per cent interest on the sum expended in the purchase even suppose not a sheep has been lost by death or otherwise i mentioned before i believe that fat hogs are sold at salisbury at from five shillings to four shillings sixpence the score pounds dead weight cheese has come down ... | 19.04 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450070 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_30_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 1,635.15 | 1,652.02 | no fear of rivalship in this trade the americans may lay on their tariff and double it and triple it but as long as they continue to cut their victuals from sheffield they must have the things to cut it with the ragged hills all round about this town are bespangled with groups of houses inhabited by the working cutlers | 16.87 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450071 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_13_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 567.36 | 580.22 | is to enable them to live well and i also know that none of these things will ever be accomplished by methodist sermons and by those stupid at once stupid and malignant things and roguish things called religious tracts | 12.86 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450072 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_29_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 3,452.64 | 3,463.9 | i shall take my horse and set off again to that very spot in the london turnpike-road at the foot of butser hill whence i turned off to go to petersfield instead of turning the other way to go to up park | 11.26 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450073 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_17_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 3,283.66 | 3,302.44 | if william of wykham could at that moment have been raised from his tomb if saint swithin whose name the cathedral bears or alfred the great to whom st swithin was tutor if either of these could have come and had been told that that was now what was carried on by men who talked of the damnable errors of those who found... | 18.78 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450074 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_19_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 606.76 | 626.3 | i see in a newspaper just received an account of dreadful fires in new brunswick it is curious that in my register of the twenty ninth october dated from chilworth in surrey i should have put a question relative to the white-clover the huckleberries or the raspberries which start up after the burning down of woods in a... | 19.54 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450075 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_11_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 1,412.7 | 1,431.73 | i believe that sir francis burdett for instance has not the smallest idea of an act of parliament ever being made without his assistance if he chooses to assist which is not very frequently the case i believe that he looks upon a seat in the house as being his property and that the other seat is and ought to be held as... | 19.03 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450076 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_23_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 2,442.84 | 2,461.7 | the distance including my little intended deviations was more than fifty miles and not liking to attempt it in one day i set off in the middle of the day and got here in the evening just before a pretty heavy rain came on before i speak of my ride from warminster to this place i must once more observe that warminster i... | 18.86 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450077 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_23_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 1,891.53 | 1,909.82 | they know well that the present standing army in time of peace consumes more food and raiment than a million of the labourers consume aye than two millions of them consume if you include the women and the children they well know these things they know that their poor labourers are taxed to keep this army in fatness and... | 18.29 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450078 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_29_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 2,121.66 | 2,132.71 | there is that numerous sect the quakers this sect arose in england they were engendered by the jewish system of usury till excises and loanmongering began these vermin were never heard of in england | 11.05 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450079 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_15_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 2,830.08 | 2,843.07 | good god here they are piles of bricks in a circular form about three hundred feet guess circumference at the base about forty feet high and about one hundred and fifty feet circumference at the top | 12.99 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450080 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_27_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 3,224.84 | 3,236.07 | but captain a word in your ear we do not care for the bourbons any more than we do for you my real opinion is that there is nothing that can put england to rights that will not shake the bourbon government | 11.23 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450081 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_29_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 2,731.31 | 2,750.1 | we saw thousands upon thousands of clouds continually coming puffing out from different parts of these hills and towering up to the top of them i stopped george several times to make him look at them to see them come puffing out of the chalk downs as well as out of the woodland hills and bade him remember to tell his f... | 18.79 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450082 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_09_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 659.51 | 677.8 | then comes the manure then come the poor-rates and road rates and county rates and if these leave one single farthing for rent i think it is strange i hear that mr birkbeck is expected home from america it is said that he is coming to receive a large legacy a thing not to be overlooked by a person who lives in a countr... | 18.29 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450083 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_34_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 2,374.15 | 2,389.71 | and besides the equal loftiness are vastly superior in point of shape and which is very curious retain all their freshness at this season of the year while the old plantations are brownish and many of the leaves falling off the trees though the sort of trees is precisely the same | 15.56 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450084 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_12_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 155.13 | 167.79 | more and more new houses are building as you leave the wen to come on this road whence come the means of building these new houses and keeping the inhabitants do they come out of trade and commerce oh no they come from the land | 12.66 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450085 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_09_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 511.36 | 523.25 | here we looked back over middlesex and into buckinghamshire and berkshire away towards the north-west into essex and kent towards the east over part of sussex to the south and over part of hampshire to the west and south-west we | 11.89 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450086 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_17_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 2,694.62 | 2,710.01 | more than three-fourths of all the interesting talk in that neighbourhood for some days past has been about this anxiously looked for event i have seen no man or boy who did not talk about it there had been a false report about it the hounds did not come and the anger of the disappointed people was very great | 15.39 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450087 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_29_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 3,322.61 | 3,336.45 | and it may be useful to my readers to know that the riding of twenty miles was not so fatiguing to me at the end of my tour as the riding of ten miles was at the beginning of it some ill-natured fools will call this egotism why is it egotism | 13.84 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450088 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_14_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 1,720.65 | 1,733.16 | but for it to find its way into print there must be something in the state of society wholly out of joint as to the rest of this article it is a tissue of downright lies the writer says that the price of wheat is sixty-five shillings a quarter | 12.51 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450089 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_20_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 498.64 | 516.19 | by the taxing of his estate and paying the stock-jobbers out of the proceeds the people have been got together in great masses and as there are justices wanted to keep them in order in those masses it seems but reasonable that the squire should in one way or another enjoy some portion of the profits of keeping them in ... | 17.55 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450090 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_22_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 94.68 | 113.17 | this man is one of the members of the county gallon loaf bennet being the other they say that he is good to the labouring people and he ought to be good for something being a member of parliament of the lethbridge and dickenson stamp however he has got a thumping estate though it be borne in mind | 18.49 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450091 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_27_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 256.69 | 274.91 | there were dorsetshire ewes that sold last year for fifty shillings a head we could hear of none this year that exceeded twenty five shillings and only think of twenty five shillings for one of these fine large ewes nearly fit to kill and having two lambs in her ready to be brought forth in on an average six weeks time | 18.22 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450092 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_17_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 362.1 | 373.18 | there was no reason to expect that farmers would not endeavour to keep pace in point of show and luxury with fund-holders and with all the tribes that war and taxes created | 11.08 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450093 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_09_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 1,238.55 | 1,254.47 | by the time he got to the bottom his hair eyes ears nose and mouth were all full of this loose sand then the others took their turn and at every roll there was a monstrous spell of laughter i had often told my sons of this while they were very little and i now took one of them to see the spot | 15.92 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450094 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_24_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 596.94 | 609.29 | this petty family began or at least made its first grand push in poor unfortunate ireland the history of that push would amuse the people of wiltshire talking of normans and high blood puts me in mind of beckford and his abbey | 12.35 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450095 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_19_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 36.91 | 46.96 | the afternoon was singularly beautiful the downs even the poorest of them are perfectly green the sheep on the downs look this year like fatting sheep | 10.05 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450096 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_22_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 223.72 | 235.49 | and in some places running a mile or two back into little cross-valleys formed by hills of downs after the corn-fields come meadows on each side down to the brook or river | 11.77 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450097 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_26_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 890.1 | 908.05 | i hear of no hard treatment of them here such as i have but too often heard of in some counties and too often witnessed in others and i quit worcestershire and particularly the house in which i am with all those feelings which are naturally produced by the kindest of receptions from frank and sensible people | 17.95 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450098 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/rural_rides_1405_librivox/ruralrides_09_cobbett_64kb.mp3 | 2,283.38 | 2,299.51 | the husband you will perceive cannot prevent the wife from having the pension after his death she is our widow in this respect not his she marries in fact with a jointure settled on her the more children the husband leaves the better for the widow for each child has a pension for a certain number of years | 16.13 | 6660 | 7844 | chunk_0129_row_6450099 |
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