The Fourth Estate: Contributions Towards a History of Newspapers, and of the Liberty of the Press, Volume 1 |
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... political plans with great industry ; whose pen had never tired in the preparation of the News - letters that were to create a public opinion to serve his party , now stood in the shadow of the gallows disgraced and de graded , and in ...
... political plans with great industry ; whose pen had never tired in the preparation of the News - letters that were to create a public opinion to serve his party , now stood in the shadow of the gallows disgraced and de graded , and in ...
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... Political Toast . The Papal Power and the Press . - Origin of the Censorship . - Wolsey's Declaration . - Effects of the Reformation . - Kingly Authority over the Press . - Increase in the number of Readers . - The Press makes Sup ...
... Political Toast . The Papal Power and the Press . - Origin of the Censorship . - Wolsey's Declaration . - Effects of the Reformation . - Kingly Authority over the Press . - Increase in the number of Readers . - The Press makes Sup ...
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... political condition were forbidden ; no one dare canvass them , for the censorship was strictly exercised . Differences however arose as to the licensing of books amongst those who claimed to exercise that privilege . Bishops at times ...
... political condition were forbidden ; no one dare canvass them , for the censorship was strictly exercised . Differences however arose as to the licensing of books amongst those who claimed to exercise that privilege . Bishops at times ...
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... political economists that demand will create supply held good , and the very persecution of the offending writers having assisted in spreading their fame , the demand for copies of their books , unsatisfied by English publishers , was ...
... political economists that demand will create supply held good , and the very persecution of the offending writers having assisted in spreading their fame , the demand for copies of their books , unsatisfied by English publishers , was ...
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... political journals . Certainly more than a thousand yards of shelving are there stored with volumes of Newspapers . The earliest in date are small meagre - looking octavos and quartos ; and as the eye ranges in the half - obscured light ...
... political journals . Certainly more than a thousand yards of shelving are there stored with volumes of Newspapers . The earliest in date are small meagre - looking octavos and quartos ; and as the eye ranges in the half - obscured light ...
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Page 123 - ... books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Page 127 - He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian.
Page 69 - I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting. For the Lord God will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my' face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.
Page 116 - THIS is true liberty, when freeborn men, Having to advise the public, may speak free ; Which he who can, and will, deserves high praise ; Who neither can, nor will, may hold his peace ; What can be juster in a state than this ? FROM HORACE.
Page 249 - Here runs the mountainous and craggy ridge That tempts ambition. On the summit see The seals of office glitter in his eyes ; He climbs, he pants, he grasps them ! At his heels, Close at his heels, a demagogue ascends, And with a dextrous jerk soon twists him down, And wins them but to lose them in his turn.
Page 123 - Last, that it will be primely to the discouragement of all learning, and the stop of truth, not only by disexercising and blunting our abilities in what we know already, but by hindering and cropping the discovery that might be yet further made both in religious and civil wisdom.
Page 280 - Wales, so far as relates to the Execution of criminals in the county of Chester. II. An Act to amend an Act of the Thirty-eighth Year of King George the Third, for preventing the Mischiefs arising from the printing and publishing Newspapers, and Papers of a like Nature, by Persons not known, and for regulating the Printing and Publication of such Papers in other respects ; and to discontinue certain Actions commenced under the Provisions of the said Act.
Page 261 - ... that every man, not intending to mislead, but seeking to enlighten others with what his own reason and conscience, however erroneously, have dictated to him as truth, may address himself to the universal reason of a whole nation, either upon the subject of governments in general, or upon that of our own particular country: — that he may analyze the principles of its constitution, — point out its errors and defects, — examine and publish its corruptions,— warn his fellow-citizens against...
Page 129 - I had, and been counted happy to be born in such a place of philosophic freedom as they supposed England was, while themselves did nothing but bemoan the servile condition into which learning amongst them was brought; that this was it which had damped the glory of Italian wits...