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Page xxxi
... continued to be published at intervals during the period between 1457 and 1534. Nuremberg was manifestly the spot where a newspaper would first appear and be appreciated . " In the valley of the Pegnitz , where , across broad meadow ...
... continued to be published at intervals during the period between 1457 and 1534. Nuremberg was manifestly the spot where a newspaper would first appear and be appreciated . " In the valley of the Pegnitz , where , across broad meadow ...
Page xxxiv
... continued in vogue , as the Sweeneys of 1765 , who sold the Courant in the streets of New York , and the Mark Maguires , the " King of the Newsboys , " a century later , who sold the Sun , Her- ald , and Times , are ample and wealthy ...
... continued in vogue , as the Sweeneys of 1765 , who sold the Courant in the streets of New York , and the Mark Maguires , the " King of the Newsboys , " a century later , who sold the Sun , Her- ald , and Times , are ample and wealthy ...
Page xxxvi
... continued from this day forward . NOTA . Advertisements may be put in this Courant , and for that end , attend- ance will be given from ten o'Clock in the Forenoon till twelve , and from two in the Afternoon till four , at the Exchange ...
... continued from this day forward . NOTA . Advertisements may be put in this Courant , and for that end , attend- ance will be given from ten o'Clock in the Forenoon till twelve , and from two in the Afternoon till four , at the Exchange ...
Page xxxvii
... continued to do so till 1726 , and also for the Director . He established the White- hall Evening Post in 1720 , and was connected with that paper for two years . De Foe manifestly had journalism on the brain , for at one time he had ...
... continued to do so till 1726 , and also for the Director . He established the White- hall Evening Post in 1720 , and was connected with that paper for two years . De Foe manifestly had journalism on the brain , for at one time he had ...
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... continued Ben Harris still , and is now both bookseller and printer in Grace Church street , as we find by his London Post ; so that his conversation is general ( but never imperti- nent ) and his wit pliable to all inventions . But yet ...
... continued Ben Harris still , and is now both bookseller and printer in Grace Church street , as we find by his London Post ; so that his conversation is general ( but never imperti- nent ) and his wit pliable to all inventions . But yet ...
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Adams Advertiser afterwards Albany American Amos Kendall appeared became Benjamin Benjamin Franklin Blair Boston Boston Gazette Buren called Centinel Chronicle circulation Colonel columns commenced Commercial Congress copy Courant Courier and Enquirer daily paper Democratic Party Duff Green early edited editor election England enterprise established excitement favor Federalists Franklin friends Gazette gentleman Globe Governor Greeley Hamilton honor Horace Greeley Independent Intelligencer interest Isaiah Thomas issued Jackson James Gordon Bennett John Journal of Commerce journalist Ledger letter libel liberty lished London Massachusetts Massachusetts Spy ment Mercury morning National News-Letter newspaper Noah organ Patriot Philadelphia political Post President Press printed printer proprietor published Ques religious reports Republican Revolution Senate sheet sold Stamp Act Street subscribers Tammany Hall telegraph Thomas Thurlow Weed tion took Tribune United Virginia Washington Webb weekly Whig William Willis writers wrote York Herald
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Page 757 - Every citizen may freely speak, write, and publish his sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that right; and no law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press.
Page 754 - No law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictments for libel, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury ; and if it shall appear to the jury that the matter charged as libellous is true, and was published with good motives, and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted ; and the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the fact.
Page 756 - That the printing presses shall be free to every person who undertakes to examine the proceedings of the legislature or any branch of government; and no law shall ever be made to restrain the right thereof. The free communication of thoughts and opinions is one of the invaluable rights of man: and every citizen may freely speak, write, and print on any subject, being responsible for the abuse of that liberty.
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Page 754 - That the freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments.
Page 291 - Verily I say unto you ; There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's, but he shall receive an hundred-fold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions, and in the world to come eternal life.
Page xvii - HOW doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower...
Page 133 - And now I've closed my epic strain, I tremble as I show it, Lest this same warrior-drover, Wayne, Should ever catch the poet.
Page 755 - In prosecutions for the publication of papers investigating the official conduct of officers, or men in a public capacity, or where the matter published is proper for public information, the truth thereof may be given in evidence. And, in all indictments for libels, the jury shall have a right to determine the law and the facts under the direction of the court as in other cases.
Page 742 - The liberty of the press is indeed essential to the nature of a free state ; but this consists in laying no previous restraints upon publications, and not in freedom from censure for criminal matter, when published. Every freeman has an undoubted right to lay what sentiments he pleases before the public ; to forbid this is to destroy the freedom of the press ; but if he publishes what is improper, mischievous, or illegal, he must take the consequence of his own temerity.