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They ask with a face of dreary vacuity, 'Have you anything new? and on receiving an answer in the negative, have nothing further to say. Cobbett's Letter to John Cropper of Liverpool, and they are alive again.
Priestley was objectionable because he was a friend of France. Moreover he had opinions about things, some of which he freely expressed, a habit he had contracted so early in life as to render it hopeless that he should ever break himself of it. Cobbett's virulence was so great as to excite the astonishment of Mr.
Mary Anne Clark, of notorious memory. Upon that occasion the public feeling was so unanimous, that Mr. Cobbett's motion, for a vote of thanks to Colonel Wardle, was carried by a very large majority.
Now I have no special desire to recommend mutton chops to my readers, nor to hold out the example of the individual whose language I have quoted, as worthy of general imitation. There is one lesson to be learned, however. Cobbett's never tiring industry is well known.
He was a disciple and admirer of William Cobbett, and though he did not run so far counter to the ideas of his patrons as to teach Cobbett's grammar at school, he always recommended it to me as the one by which alone I could learn to write good English. The learning of anything, especially of arithmetic and grammar, by the glib repetition of rules was a system that he held in contempt.
If Dickens is Cobbett's democracy stirring in its grave, Tennyson is the exquisitely ornamental extinguisher on the flame of the first revolutionary poets. England has settled down; England has become Victorian. The compromise was interesting, it was national and for a long time it was successful: there is still a great deal to be said for it.
Cobbett at his own house; at least it always struck me so, as my friend Cobbett's servants were not always the best mannered in the world, I mean his domestic servants, those who were not under his management altogether, but under the direction and management of the female part of his family. In truth, I do not remember ever going to Mr.
William Cobbett's account of how he learnt English Grammar is full of interest and instruction for all students labouring under difficulties. "I learned grammar," said he, "when I was a private soldier on the pay of sixpence a day.
Ibid., Sept. 2, 1808. N.Y. Evening Post, Feb. 28, 1809. Ibid., Sept. 21, 1808. Ibid., Dec. 8, 1808. Cobbett's Parliamentary Debates, vol. xii. p. 1194. Lord Grenville in House of Lords. Ibid., p. 780. N.Y. Evening Post, June 28, 1808. Ibid., April 8. Ibid., June 28. Ibid., October 27. The same effect, though on a much smaller scale, was seen in France.
Evidently Cobbett's statement of the free drinking of wine, cider, and beer by American children was true as Anna Green Winslow's "treat" would also show. Though Puritan children had few recreations and amusements, they must have enjoyed a very cheerful, happy home life. Large families abounded.
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