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Page 260 - The duty of the journalist is the same as that of the historian — to seek out the truth above all things and to present to his readers not such things as statecraft would wish them to know but the truth as near as he can attain it.
Page 137 - I apply this particularly as regards our children — Bertie, etc. — for whose future he had traced everything so carefully. I am also determined that no one person, may he be ever so good, ever so devoted among my servants — is to lead or guide or dictate to me.
Page 67 - You seem to imagine that England can desire nothing better than to sacrifice all its greatest interests and its most cherished objects — to support barbarism against civilisation, the Moslem against the Christian, slavery against liberty, to exchange peace for war — all to oblige the Turk.
Page 277 - It is said that with this intent, they many years ago employed a shrewd, idle clergyman, who made it his duty to loiter about in places of common resort, and find out what people thought upon the principal subjects of the time. He was not to listen very much to extreme foolishness, and still less was he to hearken to clever people. His duty was to wait and wait, until he observed that some common and obvious thought was repeated in many places...
Page 7 - Office without one word of acknowledgement ; without at least assuring you of the admiration with which I witnessed, during the arduous contest in which I was engaged, the daily exhibition of that extraordinary ability to which I was indebted for a support, the more valuable because it was an impartial and discriminating support. — I have the honour to be, Sir, — Ever your most obedient and faithful servant, ROBERT PEEL.
Page 259 - The first duty of the Press is to obtain the earliest and most correct intelligence of the events of the time, and instantly, by disclosing them, to make them the common property of the nation.
Page 21 - The decision of the Cabinet is no longer a secret. Parliament, it is confidently reported, is to be summoned for the first week in January ; and the Royal Speech will, it is added, recommend an immediate consideration of the Corn Laws, preparatory to their total repeal.
Page 275 - But if we make ourselves too little for the sphere of our duty ; if, on the contrary, we do not stretch and expand our minds to the compass of their object ; be well assured, that every thing about us will dwindle by degrees, until at length our concerns are shrunk to the dimensions of our minds.
Page 156 - ... as well known to us as the chief official at the Home Office. Now the question is forced on us, whether we who are behind the scenes are not bound, in the interests of the uninitiated public, and as the only certain mode of abating such outrages as this, to lift the veil and dispel the illusion by which the Times is enabled to pursue this game of secrecy to the public, and servility to the Government — a game (I purposely use the word) which secures for its connexions the corrupt advantages,...
Page 6 - Having this day delivered into the hands of the King the Seals of Office, I can, without any imputation of an interested motive, or any impediment from scrupulous feelings of delicacy, express my deep sense of the powerful support which that Government over which I had the honour to preside received from the Times Newspaper.