English Newspapers: Chapters in the History of Journalism, Volum 2Chatto & Windus, 1887 |
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English Newspapers: Chapters in the History of Journalism, Volum 2 Henry Richard Fox Bourne Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1887 |
English Newspapers: Chapters in the History of Journalism, Volum 2 Henry Richard Fox Bourne Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1887 |
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Side 326 - For nearly five years," he wrote, "the present ministers have harassed every trade, worried every profession, and assailed or menaced every class, institution and species of property in the country. Occasionally they have varied this state of civil warfare by perpetrating some job which outraged public opinion or by stumbling into mistakes which have always been discreditable and sometimes ruinous.
Side 38 - The Examiner' began opportunely. The parliament that was dissolved at the end of May 1826, the first in which Radicals showed themselves as a small party separate from the Whigs in opposition to the dominant Tories, had made feeble attempts at dealing with several of the questions now pressing for solution ; among them, the widespread commercial depression and industrial distress, ruining great merchants and threatening the working classes with starvation, for which the only reasonable remedies...
Side 20 - He was just the animal that Lord Monmouth wanted, for Lord Monmouth always looked upon human nature with the callous eye of a jockey. He surveyed Rigby, and he determined to buy him. He bought him; with his clear head, his indefatigable industry, his audacious tongue, and his ready and unscrupulous pen; with all his dates, all his lampoons; all his private memoirs, and all his political intrigues.
Side 174 - Let us, then, unite to put an end to a system which has been proved to be the blight of commerce, the bane of agriculture, the source of bitter divisions among classes, the cause of penury, fever, mortality, and crime among the people.
Side 3 - I think no Administration, who have any regard for him, will go the length he wishes, as an Administration — and if they will, they cannot take Parliament along with them. That body is afraid of disclosures — not on one side only — which may affect the monarchy itself.
Side 91 - ... description of vehicle known in this country. I have been, in my time, belated on miry by-roads, towards the small hours, forty or fifty miles from London, in a wheelless carriage, with exhausted horses and drunken post-boys, and have got back in time for publication, to be received with neverforgotten compliments by the late Mr. Black, coming in the broadest of Scotch from the broadest of hearts I ever knew.
Side 108 - It makes me laugh," he continued, "at what The Times pays me now, when I think of the old days, and how much better I wrote for them then, and got a shilling where I now get ten.
Side 210 - So long as the penny lasts, there can be no daily Press for the middle or working class. Who below the rank of a merchant or wholesale dealer can afford to take in a daily paper at fivepence ? Clearly it is beyond the reach of the mechanic and the shopkeeper.
Side 37 - He was the genuine successor, not of me, but of the Swifts and Addisons themselves ; profuse of wit even beyond them, and superior in political knowledge.
Side 19 - But it is said that if a party is to be allowed to publish what passes in a court of justice, he must publish the whole case, and not merely state the conclusion which he himself draws from the evidence.