He would no more have thought of looking for England in Birmingham than of looking for Ireland in Belfast.
The prestige of Cobbett's excellent literary style has survived the persecution of his equally excellent opinions.

But that style also is underrated through the loss of the real English tradition.

More cautious schools have missed the fact that the very genius of the English tongue tends not only to vigour, but specially to violence.

The Englishman of the leading articles is calm, moderate, and restrained; but then the Englishman of the leading articles is a Prussian.

The mere English consonants are full of Cobbett.