 | Isaiah Thomas - 1874 - 728 ページ
...particular force to our own country, where every judicious observer must perceive, that too many of our gazettes are in the hands of persons destitute at...of national character, we may ascribe the faults of 1 " This has not been, generally, so much the case in America as in Europe. From the earliest period... | |
 | American Antiquarian Society - 1874 - 744 ページ
...particular force to our own country, where every judicious observer must perceive, that too many of our gazettes are in the hands of persons destitute at...of national character, we may ascribe the faults of '"This ha.s not been, generally, so much the case in America as in Europe. From the earliest period... | |
 | Isaiah Thomas - 1874 - 736 ページ
...particular force to our own country, where every judicious observer must perceive, that too many of our gazettes are in the hands of persons destitute at...of national character, we may ascribe the faults of 1 " This has not been, generally, so much the case in America as in Europe. From the earliest period... | |
 | 1887 - 802 ページ
...scoundrel." Too many of these editors and writers were, in the words of gentle old Isaiah Thomas, " destitute at once of the urbanity of gentlemen, the...information of scholars, and the principles of virtue." They raged madly at one another as " vermin and foxes," as " minions of sedition," as "notorious Jacobins."... | |
 | William Peterfield Trent, John Erskine, Stuart Pratt Sherman, Carl Van Doren - 1918 - 686 ページ
...than in Daniel's contributions to the Examiner. Though it could still be said that "too many of our gazettes are in the hands of persons destitute at...information of scholars, and the principles of virtue," a fact due largely to the intensity of party spirit, the profession was by no means without editors... | |
 | Donald Henderson Stewart - 1969 - 988 ページ
...extreme publications of this nature (on both sides) had editors who were, in the words of Isaiah Thomas, "destitute at once of the urbanity of gentlemen, the...information of scholars, and the principles of virtue." 159 Such intransigents grew to have an undue prominence and unfortunately came to set the tone for... | |
 | Jeffery A. Smith - 1990 - 246 ページ
...welfare of the state, and deeply involving both its peace and prosperity." He also noted that they had been "pronounced by travellers, the most profligate and scurrilous public prints in the civilized world." On one hand, as Miller analyzed it, newspapers disseminated useful information, exposed... | |
 | Hazel Dicken Garcia - 1989 - 356 ページ
...early nation years and author of the first history of American journalism, who called partisan editors "destitute at once of the urbanity of gentlemen, the...information of scholars, and the principles of virtue." 17 Thomas blamed American press problems on partisanism. Devoting three pages to a minister's press... | |
 | Nathan O. Hatch - 1989 - 332 ページ
...religious communications could slip into the hands of ordinary folk — whom the gentry dismissed as "destitute at once of the urbanity of gentlemen, the information of scholars, and the principles of virtue."1o Both became relentless itinerants and went about discomfiting respectable churches by reinforcing... | |
 | Lewis H. Lapham - 1995 - 396 ページ
...newspapers, was appalled to discover that America's intellectual leadership had fallen (then as now) into "the hands of persons destitute at once of the urbanity...information of scholars, and the principles of virtue." If not by 1805, the year that Lewis and Clark departed for the headwaters of the Missouri River, then... | |
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Europe; but it applies with particular force to our own country, where every judicious observer must perceive, that too many of our gazettes are in the hands of persons destitute at once of the urbanity of gentlemen, the information of scholars, and the... 
