Front matter
Reading edition
WILLIAM COBBETT.
A BIOGRAPHY.
VOL. I.
LONDON: GILBERT AND RIVINGTON, PRINTERS, ST. JOHN’S SQUARE.
J. R. Smith pinxit. F. Bartolozzi R.A. sculpsit.
Mr. William Cobbett.
WILLIAM COBBETT: A BIOGRAPHY.
By EDWARD SMITH.
IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I.
London: SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, SEARLE, & RIVINGTON, CROWN BUILDINGS, 188, FLEET STREET. 1878. [All rights reserved.]
“It is not by his faults, but by his excellences, that we measure a great man.”
G. H. Lewes (On Actors, &c.).
“Fear never but you shall be consistent in whatever variety of actions, so that they be each honest and natural in their hour. For of one will, the actions will be harmonious, however unlike they seem.”
R. W. Emerson (Essay on Self-reliance).
“My good blade carves the casques of men, My tough lance thrusteth sure, My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure!” Tennyson (Sir Galahad).