The History of British Journalism: From the Foundation of the Newspaper Press in England, to the Repeal of the Stamp Act in 1855Richard Bentley, 1859 - 339 pages |
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Page 292 - Which of the two to choose, slavery or death ! No, let us rise at once, gird on our swords, And, at the head of our remaining troops, Attack the foe, break through the thick array Of his throng'd legions, and charge home upon him. Perhaps some arm, more lucky than the rest, May reach his heart, and free the world from bondage.
Page 144 - He, and the persons employed under him, gained admittance; they brought away the subject of discussion, the names of the speakers, the side they took, and the order in which they rose, together with notes of the arguments advanced in the course of the debate.
Page 5 - I will give him the full swing of the patronage of office — I will give him the whole host of ministerial influence— I will give him all the power that place can confer upon him to purchase up submission and overawe resistance ; and yet, armed with the liberty of the press, I -will go forth to meet him undismayed ; I will attack the mighty fabric he has reared with that mightier engine ; I will shake down from its height corruption, and bury it beneath the ruins of the abuses it was meant to...
Page 165 - ... to make strict and diligent search for the authors, printers and publishers of a seditious and treasonable paper, intitled, The North Briton, No. 45, Saturday April 23, 1763, printed for G. Kearsley in Ludgate-street, London, and them, or any of them, having found, to apprehend and seize, together with their papers...
Page 106 - ... will make its way in the world but very heavily. In short the necessity of carrying a stamp, and the improbability of notifying a bloody battle, will, I am afraid, both concur to the sinking of those thin folios, which have every other day retailed to us the history of Europe for several years last past. A facetious friend of mine, who loves a pun, calls this present mortality among authors, The fall of the leaf.
Page 164 - an admiral without conduct, an engineer without knowledge, an officer without resolution, and a man without veracity!
Page 133 - He told us of Cooke who translated Hesiod and lived twenty years on a translation of Plautus for which he was always taking subscriptions; and that he presented Foote to a club in the following singular manner: "This is the nephew of the gentleman who was lately hung in chains for murdering his brother.
Page 92 - Some time before the Revolution, the press was again set to work ; and such a furious itch of novelty has ever since been the epidemical distemper, that it has proved fatal to many families ; the meanest of shopkeepers and handicrafts spending whole days in coffee-houses, to hear news and talk politicks,- whilst their wives and children wanted bread at home...
Page 106 - THIS is the day on which many eminent authors will probably publish their last words. I am afraid that few of our weekly historians, who are men that above all others delight in war, will be able to subsist under the weight of a stamp, and an approaching peace.
Page 138 - of 1731, ' are of late so multiplied as to render it impossible, unless a man makes it his business, to consult them all. . . . Upon calculating the number of newspapers it is found that (besides divers written accounts) no less than 200 half-sheets per month are thrown from the press, only in London, and about as many printed elsewhere in the three kingdoms ; ... so that they are become the chief channels of amusement and intelligence.'3 ' The people of Great Britain,