Character Counts!
Salesman Richard Cobden wondered why his employers left a full warehouse in his hands without any kind of security.
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Richard Cobden was one of the Victorian era’s outstanding statesmen, committed to peace and free trade between all nations.
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Nobody Wants to Invade You
Richard Cobden told an Edinburgh peace conference that the biggest threat to the United Kingdom’s security was her own foreign policy.
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Elbert Green Hubbard tells us about Richard Cobden’s early life, and how it shaped his values; Sydney Smith gives us his definition of marriage; mild-mannered clergyman George Herbert get his hands (and much else besides) dirty in helping labourer dumped in the road by his overloaded horse; and a Victorian commuter arrives home carrying more than his briefcase.