The Great Wen is a disparaging nickname for London. The term was coined in the 1820s by William Cobbett, the radical pamphleteer and champion of rural England. Cobbett saw the rapidly growing city as a pathological swelling on the face of the nation. (A "wen" is a sebaceous cyst.) The term is quoted in his 1830 work Rural Rides: "But, what is to be the fate of the great wen of all? The monster, called, by the silly coxcombs of the press, 'the metropolis of the empire?'"[1]
^Cobbett, William (November 2005) [First published 1830]. Rural Rides - Volume 1. Cosimo Classics. p. 43. ISBN 1-59605-577-4.
TheGreatWen is a disparaging nickname for London. The term was coined in the 1820s by William Cobbett, the radical pamphleteer and champion of rural...
Look up Wen, wen, wén, wèn, wên, wēn, or wěn in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Wen, wen, or WEN may refer to: One of several Chinese surnames: Wen (surname...
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2024. Yao Wen-yuan: On the Social Basis Of The Lin Piao Antiparty Clique. Foreign Languages Press, Peking 1975. The Yao Wenyuan Archive at the Marxist Internet...
heroes King Wen of Zhou and the Duke of Zhou, and was also associated with the legendary world ruler Fuxi. According to the canonical Great Commentary...
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