The Press and Its Story: An Account of the Birth and Development of Journalism Up to the Present Day, with the History of All the Leading Newspapers: Daily, Weekly, Or Monthly, Secular and Religious, Past and Present; Also the Story of Their Production from Wood-pulp to the Printed Sheet

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Seeley, Service & Company, limited, 1914 - 327 pagine

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Pagina 329 - PHOTOGRAPHY OF TO-DAY. A Popular Account of the Origin, Progress, and Latest Discoveries in the Photographer's Art, told in Non-technical Language. By H. CHAPMAN JONES, FIC, FCS, FRPS ; Pres.
Pagina 329 - ENGINEERING OF TO-DAY. A Popular Account of the Present State of the Science, with many interesting Examples, described in Non-technical Language.
Pagina 175 - — we are there told — ' to measure the most plausible schemes, the most popular opinion, the most promising experiments, the most dominant parties, the most powerful ministries, the most established reputations, the most inveterate usages, the most subtle advances, the most overbearing classes, the most formidable combinations. Whilst other men found a refuge for intellectual weakness or moral instability in pledging their faith to a statesman, a party, a theory, or a class, he never forgot...
Pagina v - How shall I speak thee, or thy power address, Thou god of our idolatry, the press? By thee religion, liberty, and laws Exert their influence, and advance their cause; By thee worse plagues than Pharaoh's land befell, Diffused, make earth the vestibule of Hell; Thou fountain, at which drink the good and wise; Thou ever bubbling spring of endless lies; Like Eden's dread probationary tree, Knowledge of good and evil is from thee.
Pagina 176 - THE TIMES. Why change the head ? This question will naturally come from the Public — and we, the Times, being the PUBLIC'S most humble and most obedient Servants, think ourselves bound to answer : — All things have heads — and all heads are liable to change.
Pagina 177 - Register, or the New Annual Register ; or, if the coffeehouse be within the purlieus of Covent Garden, or the hundreds of Drury, slips into the politician's hand — Harris's Register of Ladies. For these and other reasons, the parents of the UNIVERSAL REGISTER have added to its original name that of the TIMES; which, being a monosyllable, bids defiance to corruptors and mutilators of the language.

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