Cobbett

[ kob-it ]

/ ˈkɒb ɪt /

WilliamPeter Porcupine,1763–1835, English political essayist and journalist in the U.S. and England.

Example sentences from the Web for cobbett

Young Cobbett is fired by the glowing description, and resolves that he must see them, and work upon them too.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 |Various
You must no longer plume yourself on being the principal object of Cobbett's abuse.

Letters of David Ricardo to Thomas Robert Malthus, 1810-1823 |David Ricardo
To avoid the blow aimed at him, Cobbett fled to America early in 1817, where he remained nearly three years.

Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland |Henry B. Stanton
Since Cobbett uttered his anathema against the root, it never was in such bad odour.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 70, No. 434, December, 1851 |Various

The two houses next to Cobbett's (184 and 185) are the oldest houses standing in Fleet Street.

Old and New London |Walter Thornbury

Cobbett

/ (ˈkɒbɪt) /

William. 1763–1835, English journalist and social reformer; founded The Political Register (1802); author of Rural Rides (1830)