William Cobbett
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9781521244357
Paperback|9781521244357
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This is a biography of William Cobbett by G. K. Chesterton. In the words of G.K himself:" But Cobbett had this strange power of faith: he could believe his eyes. Most people cannot believe their eyes; it is the very last thing in which they can believe. They can believe in the wildest creeds and the crudest philosophies; similarly they can believe in a past made up of The Castle of Otranto and The Mysteries of Udolpho. But they cannot believe in the present; in the thing present to their sight; in the thing in whose real presence they stand. But Cobbett really had this unearthly detachment, this dry light of reality, this vision of a man from the moon." "This uneducated man was too well educated for all his contemporaries. He stood in a world which believed that it was broadening; and the whole mind of that world was narrower than his own. It believed itself to be growing modern and many-sided; and he alone saw that it was growing monomaniac and mean. And that larger vision died with him: and vanished for a hundred years."
| ISBN-13 | 9781521244357 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1521244359 |
| Weight | 0.88 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.57 In |
| List Price | $9.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Language | English |
| Pages | 226 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2017-05-07 |
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