Richard Cobden
historical figure · 1 work · 11 mentions · 22 anchored passages
Cobden
in the texts
Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
Nineteenth-century statesman and advocate for free trade.
Cobden and Bright finally became potent advocates of truths of which they were in no sense the discoverers.
he opposed the corn laws as in themselves immoral, and used language on this point which Cobden possibly might have deemed exaggerated.
Eighteen years later thus writes Richard Cobden: