William Cobbett Vol12

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ISBN 13 : 9781332845408
Total Pages : 38 pages
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Download or read book William Cobbett (Classic Reprint) written by and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from William Cobbett Four hundred dollars in two years was no very large sum; but we must remember that, during this period, he was not depending mainly on his literary labours for his living. He still continued to teach Frenchmen English, at six dollars a month, as we learn from an amusing account he gives in his Gazette Selections, of an interview he had, in 1796, with Talleyrand, who offered him twenty dollars a month for lessons in English, and had his liberal offer refused. I told him, ' says Cobbett, that being engaged in a translation for the press, I could not possibly quit home. This difficulty the lame fiend hopped over in'a moment: he would very gladly come to my house. I cannot say but it would have been a great satisfaction to me to have seen the ci-devant bishop of Autun, the guardian of the oil that anointed the heads of the descendants of St Louis, come trudging through the dirt to receive a lesson from me; but, on the other hand, I -did not want a French spy to take a survey either of my desk or my house. My price for teaching was six dollars a month; he offered me twenty; but I refused, and before I left him, I gave him clearly to understand that I was not to be purchased.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.