The book A Refreshment for the Memory of William Cobbett was written by author Samuel Fisher Bradford Here you can read free online of A Refreshment for the Memory of William Cobbett book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is A Refreshment for the Memory of William Cobbett a good or bad book?
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He has forgiven you j and, has difdained (as you, naturally, fuppofed would be the cafe) to anfwer your infinuations. Nor fnould I (a boy) have honor- ed you fo much had it not been for the opportunity which the -preceeding pamphlet offered me of annex- ing a refreihment for your excellent memory. I fhall content m.yfelf, at prefent, with making fome remarks on your half-told life and your mifreprefentations and reticence of your tranfatlions with my father. But, to your life — " Set a beggar o...n horfeback and he will ride to the Devil." Here we fee you, Mr. Corporal^ mounted on your prickly beaft, cutting and flafhing as you go ; friend or foe, it is all one to you, fo that you can belch forth your acrimony and dif- charge your rancour. V/hether you were drummed out of your regiment or regularly difcharged (though, by tlie bye, it is not common to difcharge a good foldier, as you would make us believe) or whether you arrived at New York or "Wilmington ; whether you remained, in obfcurity, fceaching a few Frenchmen io parley Angkis in the lat- ter place and afterwards here, or whether you Vi^ere fKulking in our fuburbs, 'till you fuppofed it was time C " ] to flafli upon the aftonlflied world, and difplay your fuperioi" abilities, by telling us, that William Cobbett was the writer of certain pieces under the title of Peter Porcupine, I fay, thefe things are matters of little con- fequence to me.
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