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Andrew Marschalk April April 11 Articles of Intelligence August Baltimore Benjamin Boston Boston Gazette Boston-The Centinel Cents changed Cherokee Chronicle Concord Connecticut December died Dollar editor Exeter February Federal folio four columns four pages Fowle Friday Green Hampshire Gazette Haverhill Historical Society History Impartial imprint inches inserted Intelligencer Isaiah Thomas James January John Journal July July 17 June June 16 June 21 latest number known Laws Liberty lished Magazine March March 18 Maryland Gazette Massachusetts Gazette Massachusetts Spy Monday motto Natchez New-Hampshire Newburyport News-Letter newspaper November Numb October paper was printed political Portsmouth primer type Printed and Published printer printing office Printing-Office publication Republican Russell Salem Samuel Saturday semi-weekly Sept September shillings per annum sold Street subscribers Subscriptions Territory thankfully received three columns Thursday town volume Wednesday week Weekly Advertiser William Worcester
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Page 136 - Let it be impressed upon your minds, let it be instilled into your children, that the liberty of the press is the palladium of all the civil, political, and religious rights of an Englishman...
Page 606 - The liberty of the press is essential to the security of freedom in a state; it ought not, therefore, to be restrained in this Commonwealth.
Page 246 - ... to send news ; made arrangements for the regular weekly publication of " the Number of Persons Buried and Baptized in the town of Boston ;" the prospectus closing thus : his may serve as a Notification, that a Select number of Gentlemen, who have had the happiness of a liberal Education, and some of them considerably improv'd by their Travels into distant Countries ; are now concerting some regular Schemes for the Entertainment of the ingenious Reader, and the Encouragement of Wit and Politeness...
Page 4 - The History of Printing in America. With a Biography of Printers, and an Account of Newspapers. To which is prefixed a concise view of the Discovery and Progress of the Art in Other Parts of the World.
Page 76 - But these considerations, however powerfully they address themselves to your sensibility, are greatly outweighed by those which apply more immediately to your interest. Here every portion of our country finds the most commanding motives for carefully guarding and preserving the union of the whole.
Page 244 - That James Franklin, the printer and publisher thereof, be strictly forbidden by this Court to print or publish the New England Courant, or any other pamphlet or paper of the like nature, except it be first supervised by the secretary of this Province...
Page 146 - The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States and admitted as soon as possible according to the principles of the federal Constitution to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages and immunities of citizens of the United States, and in the mean time they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property and the Religion which they profess.
Page 262 - ... good Manners and good Sense, and at the same time free from all licentious Reflections, Insolence and Abuse. Whatsoever may be adapted to State and Defend the Rights and Liberties of Mankind, to advance useful Knowledge and the Cause of Virtue, to improve the Trade, the Manufactures and...
Page 74 - Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would be no longer possessed of liberty, because all his fellow-citizens would have the same power.
Page 230 - anything in print without license first obtained from those appointed by the government to grant the same.