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...threepence found a haystack and began to read. Eurekal - 'the book', he recalled, 'was so different ... it delighted me beyond description; and it produced...have always considered a sort of birth of intellect'. Cobbett rose to become the people's tribune, the self-styled 'great enlightener of the people of England'....

...of reading Jonathan Swift's A Tale of a Tub as a 14-year-old: 'The book [. . .] was so different ... it delighted me beyond description; and it produced...have always considered a sort of birth of intellect' (quoted in Porter 2000: 74—5). The Enlightenment viewed reading as an intellectual quest, a challenge...

...Tale of a Tub in a store window, he spent every pence he had to get it: "the book was so different ... it delighted me beyond description, and it produced...have always considered a sort of birth of intellect." East London cooper Will Crooks found a used Iliad selling for a tuppence, and decided to take a browse:...

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