...to the fund-holders. Aye ! yon may wince ; you may cry Jacobin and Leveller as long as you please. I wish to see the poor men of England what the poor me-i of England were when I was born ; and, from endeavouring to accomplish this wish, nothing but...

...them to the fund-holders. Ay ! you may wince ; you may cry Jacobin and Leveller as long as you please. I WISH TO SEE THE POOR MEN OF ENGLAND WHAT THE POOR MEN OF ENGLAND WERE WHEN I WAS BORN ; AND FROM ENDEAVOURING TO ACCOMPLISH THIS WISH NOTHING BUT THE WANT OF MEANS SHALL MAKE ME DESIST."...

...aspirations that animated all his writings and reconcile all his changes to the single sentence : " I wish to see the poor men of England what the poor men of England were when I was a boy." Madame Necker and her salon form the subject of an interesting paper. She was the only example of a...

...invasion of freedom. " Aye ! you may wince ; you may cry Jacobin and Leveller as long as you please. I wish to see the poor men of England what the poor men of England were when I was born ; and from endeavouring to accomplish this wish, nothing but the want of the means shall make...

...reshape nineteenth-century realities into eighteenth-century memories. "I wish to see," he wrote in 1807, "the poor men of England what the poor men of England were when I was born." 4 It is impossible to disentangle Cobbett's early attitudes from his later recollections. He...

...became part of old England in popular rural culture. Henceforth the labourers joined Cobbett in wanting 'to see the poor men of England what the poor men of England were when I was born'. This phrase, often quoted by way of ridiculing Cobbett's nostalgia and inflated ego, should...

...to look back upon his halfnaked and half-famished children. . . ." 4 "I wish to see," Cobbett wrote, "the poor men of England what the poor men of England were when I was born; and from endeavouring to accomplish this wish, nothing but the want of means shall make me desist."...