| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1843 - 626 pages
...that its influence is lessening, and men are returning to their manly senses. But while that Press has its evil eye in every house, and its black hand...appointment in the state, from a president to a postman ; while, with ribald slander for its only stock in trade, it is the standard literature of an enormous... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1842 - 646 pages
...that its influence is lessening, and men are returning to tbeir manly senses. But while that Press has its evil eye in every house , and its black hand...appointment in the state, from a president to a postman; while, with ribald slander for its only stock in trade, it is the standard literature of an enormous... | |
| Charles Dickens - Canada - 1842 - 330 pages
...that its influence is lessening, and men are returning to their manly senses. But while that Press has its evil eye in every house, and its black hand...appointment in the state, from a president to a postman ; while, with ribald slander for its only stock in trade, it is the standard literature of an enormous... | |
| Charles Dickens - United States - 1842 - 340 pages
...that its influence is lessening, and men are returning to their manly senses. But while that Press has its evil eye in every house, and its black hand...every appointment in the state, from a president to a poslman ; while, with ribald slander for its only stock in trade, it is the standard literature of... | |
| North American review - 1866 - 672 pages
...that its influence is lessening, and men are returning to their manly senses. But while that Press has its evil eye in every house, and its black hand...appointment in the state, from a President to a postman, — while, with ribald slander for its only stock in trade, it is the standard literature of an enormous... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1866 - 472 pages
...that its influence is lessening, and men are returning to their manly senses. But while that Press has its evil eye in every house, and its black hand...appointment in the state, from a president to a postman ; while, with ribald slander for its only stock in trade, it is the standard literature of an enormous... | |
| North American review - 1866 - 662 pages
...that its influence is lessening, and men are returning to their manly senses. But while that Press has its evil eye in every house, and its black hand...appointment in the state, from a President to a postman, — while, with ribald slander for its only stock in trade, it is the standard literature of an enormous... | |
| North American review - 1866 - 670 pages
...that its influence is lessening, and men are returning to their manly senses. But while that Press has its evil eye in every house, and its black hand...every appointment in the state, from a President to a postman,—while, with ribald slander for its only stock in trade, it is the standard literature of... | |
| Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1867 - 894 pages
...bully, gives the lesson to the powerful villain, compels decency of manners, purifies the laugunge of conversation, raises the tone of society, puts..."It has its evil eye in every house, and its black haud in every appointment in the State, from a president to a postman; with ribald slander for its... | |
| James Parton - United States - 1867 - 484 pages
...that its influence is lessening, and men are returning to their manly senses. But while that Press has its evil eye in every house, and its black hand...appointment in the state, from a President to a postman, — while, with ribald slander for its only stock in trade, it is the standard literature of an enormous... | |
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