Tuesday, December 16, 2025
They Know
William Cobbett (1762-1835), Rural Rides, ed. George Woodcock (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1985), p. 366 (Malmsbury, Wiltshire, September 11, 1826):
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They feel the facts; but they wish to disguise them, because they know that they have been one great cause of the country being in its present impoverished and dilapidated state. They know that the people look at them with an accusing eye: and they wish to put as fair a face as they can upon the state of things.
