Cobbett's Advice to Young Men

Cobbett's Advice to Young Men PDF

Author: William Cobbett

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Published: 2012-10-07

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 9781480064140

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He obtained great celebrity, and exercised a powerful influence over many of his countrymen, during the early part of the nineteenth century. As to his origin, he was simply an English peasant. He was born in 1762, in a cottage-like dwelling near Farnham, in Surrey. His father was a farmer there ;and after he left the cottage, about 1780, it was converted into a public house, under the pleasant name of The Jolly Farmer, and was long celebrated for its home-brewed ale and beer, the product of the Farnham hops. Behind the house stood a steep sand rock and a little garden, to which William Cobbett often alluded in after years. From my infancy, he says, speaking of rural employments, in one passage of his writ ings, from the age of six years, when I climbed up the side of a steep sand rock, and there scooped me out a plot of four feet square to make me a garden, and the soil for which I carried up in the bosom of my little blue smock frock, I have never lost one particle of my passion for these healthy and rational and heart-charming pursuits. Industry and independence were amongst his first lessons, and it was impossible for him to have learned any of more importance. His fathers means being but small, he and his brothers had to bestir themselves. I do not remember, he says, the time when I did not earn my own living. My first occupation was driving the small birds from the turnip seed, and the rooks from the peas.

Cobbett's Advice to Young Men

Cobbett's Advice to Young Men PDF

Author: William Cobbett

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2016-11-10

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 9781540316080

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Half title: Cobbett's advice to young men, and sermons. "Together with his twelve quaint sermons, on various subjects: 1. hypocrisy and cruelty ... 12. persons and tithes." 1. It is the duty, and ought to be the pleasure, of age and experience to warn and instruct youth and to come to the aid of inexperience. When sailors have discovered rocks or breakers, and have had the good luck to escape with life from amidst them, they, unless they be pirates or barbarians as well as sailors, point out the spots for the placing of buoys and of lights, in order that others may not be exposed to the danger which they have so narrowly escaped. What man of common humanity, having, by good luck, missed being engulfed in a quagmire or quicksand, will withhold from his neighbours a knowledge of the peril without which the dangerous spots are not to be approached? 2. The great effect which correct opinions and sound principles, imbibed in early life, together with the good conduct, at that age, which must naturally result from such opinions and principles; the great effect which these have on the whole course of our lives is, and must be, well known to every man of common observation. How many of us, arrived at only forty years, have to repent; nay, which of us has not to repent, or has not had to repent, that he did not, at an earlier age, possess a great stock of knowledge of that kind which has an immediate effect on our personal ease and happiness; that kind of knowledge, upon which the cheerfulness and the harmony of our homes depend!

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