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have raited him so much higher , almost makes 009 forget hi * egotism . ¦ ¦ . Cobbett was not only an example of self-inftjiictionu ^ yt of
public teaching . He said , on some occasion , many mars ago , ' It is certain that I hare been the great enlightener of the people of England / And so he was . The newspapers have pot , that we are aware , adverted to our deepest obligation to him * H « W | 9 the Inventor of Twopenny Tbash . Let the title be inherited
on his monument . The infamous Six Acts , although they m * pended the machinery for awhile of cheap political publication could not undo what had been done , nor avert its great , hum ** diate , and far greater eventual utility . If only for that good work , honoured be the memory of old Cobbett .
W . J . F , The Times and John A . Roebuck .- * -The ' fourth estate / fell and sundry / so far as I have observed , is in universal dudg *** with John Roebuck for his sweeping anathenia pronoupeed $ p ft in his place in the House of Commons . It would almPSt ftPPH
as if John Roebuck and the ' fourth estate' were henceforth to h enemies , d toute outrance . The ' fourth estate / or some of ih $ members of that body incorporate , wish to make out thfrt they are all but universally immaculate . John Roebuck , on the con trary , declares that they are universal miscreants without a single
saving clause , c stock and block . ' As common in such disputes , both parties are in the wrong . The editors of the public jotur * nals are not all hirelings , not all self-seekers ; like other men they have their living to get by their occupations , but that living dues not necessarily depend on their pursuing either a dishonest or otherwise immoral course . John Roebuck has been wronged by newspaper writers , and naturally feels indignant under turn
wrongs ; but lie can scarcely hope to right those wrongs by cob * founding innocent men with guilty , good men with evil , in one wide censure . He cannot designedly mean to class the highs purposed Albany Fonblanque , the keen and just analyst , with the
poor self-seeking beings who compose coarse sentences of mtn ^ gled ignorance , malice , and worldly trick , for the polkita } columns of the tradesman-sold and Tory-bought' Timer' mile paper . The mind of John Roebuck is too essentially logical to permit us for a moment to think he had any such design , and
the rash sweeping accusation was not the result of his bcein ' e deliberation , but of an irritable digestion . It was done in bad taste , as all unjust things are , and it is the more to be regiaHadU * s with the majority of mankind an error in taste usually weighs more than a positive crim * . There are not many man of mm hi g h intellect of John Roebuck , and we of tht people would « waL wiuihgly pqe him damage dm eau ^ e he ha * in hand ty m MpK * c 4 ou « Wtoniiurrf fcttW dignity * It U bemth hi * pn *** t
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 1, 1835, page 487, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2647/page/51/
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