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" I should have been at this day as great a fool, as inefficient a mortal, as any of those frivolous idiots that are turned out from Winchester and Westminster School, or from any of those dens of dunces called colleges and universities. "
The Life of William Cobbett - Pagina 183
door William Cobbett - 1835 - 216 pagina’s
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Cobbett's Weekly Register, Volume 44

William Cobbett - 1822 - 444 pagina’s
...mortal, as any of those frivolous idiots that are turned -out from Winchester and Westminster School, ot from any of those dens of dunces called Colleges and...the ability which it probably gave me to be. one of the.greatest terrors, to one of the .• greatest and most powerful': body of knaves and fools, that...
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Cobbett's Political Register, Volume 44

William Cobbett - 1822 - 432 pagina’s
...inefficient a mortal, as any of those frivolous idiots that are turned out from Winchester and Westminster School, or from any of those dens of dunces called...and Universities. It is impossible to say how much 1 owe to that sand-hill ; and I went to return it my thanks for the ability which it probably gave...
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Rural rides

William Cobbett - 1830 - 766 pagina’s
...inefficient a mortal, as any of those frivolous idiots that are turned out from Winchester and Westminster School, or from any of those dens of dunces called...sand-hill ; and I went to return it my thanks for tUe ability winch it probably gave me to be one of the greatest terrors, to one of the greatest and...
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The Life of William Cobbett

William Cobbett - 1835 - 236 pagina’s
...brought up a milksop, with a nursery-maid everlastingly at my heels; I should have been at this clay as great a fool, as inefficient a mortal, as any of...gave me to be one of the greatest terrors, to one of tne greatest and most powerful bodies of knaves and fools, that ever was permitted to afflict this...
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The Life of William Cobbett

William Cobbett - 1835 - 456 pagina’s
...inefficient a mortal, as any of those frivolous idiots that are turned out from "Winchester and Westminster School, or from any of those dens of dunces called...most powerful bodies of knaves and fools, that ever were permitted to afflict this or any other country." CHAPTER XXIII. CONTEMPORARY OPINIONS OF WILLIAM...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 95

1867 - 854 pagina’s
...rinriiil, as any of those frivolons idiots that are turned out from Winchester and Westminster schools, or from any of those dens of dunces > called colleges and universities. Here, after Warton and Keats, we have a very distinct third variety of the Writing Man. As to poetry...
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Rambles by Rivers: The Avon, Volume 3

James Thorne - 1845 - 514 pagina’s
...mortal, as any of those frivolous idiots that are turned out from Winchester and Westminster schools, or from any of those dens of dunces called Colleges and Universities." It would be idle to say a word in confutation of the wild folly of this last sentence. No doubt there...
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Popular History of England, Volume 8

Charles Knight - 1862 - 738 pagina’s
...bench was taken off, and up rose the author of the " Register," who had written that he was born " to be one of the greatest terrors to one of the greatest...most powerful bodies of knaves and fools that ever were permitted to afflict this or any other country. "t Out of that most powerful body of which he...
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Scott's Monthly Magazine, Volume 4

1867 - 488 pagina’s
...mortal, as any of those frivolous idiots that are turned out from Winchester and Westminster schools, or from any of those dens of dunces called colleges and universities." . Here, after Warton and Keats, we have a very distinct third variety of the Writing Man. As to poetry...
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Passages of a working life during half a century. Re-issue, Volume 1

Charles Knight - 1873 - 364 pagina’s
...paraded his contempt of "those frivolous idiots that are turned out from Winchester or Westminster School, or from any of those dens of dunces called Colleges and Universities." Such was the taking style of the rampant days of democratic journalism. The direction has changed of...
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