A newspaper is the single gleam of comfort I receive here; it comes from rich Cathay with tidings of mankind.

The newspaper in which Lamb complimented the book was the New Times, for April 12, 1825.

A newspaper is an artificial thing in this sense, and one of the arts of the newspaper-writer consists in presenting his views with that kind of repetition which, like the phrases of a fugue, constantly approaches, but never oversteps the limit of monotony.

For her, newspapers were men's toys.

A newspaper had so often been to him a shelter from his mother's eyes, a protection from his mother's tongue, that, whenever he saw a storm or a siege of embarrassing questioning about to begin, he looked around for a newspaper as involuntarily as a soldier feels in his belt for his pistol.

Why, consider how much milder even the newspapers are.

Literary newspapers, since they print the daily smatterings of commonplace people, are especially a cunning means for robbing from the aesthetic public the time which should be devoted to the genuine productions of art for the furtherance of culture.

Also the newspaper was the pride of the three girl journalists, who under the tutelage of Miss Briggs were learning to understand the complicated system of a daily journal.

Instantly the newspaper had become the chief article of Hilda's faith.

But don't you see what a dangerous weapon a newspaper is?' "Worse than a car or a gun," he agreed.

Historical students must, of course, dive pretty deeply into the parliamentary debates and appendices to the journals of the House of Representatives, into the bulky reports and correspondence relating to New Zealand published in London by the Imperial authorities, and into the files of the larger newspapers The weekly newspapers of the Colony are especially well worth consulting.

" The counsel for the claimant said a newspaper was not legal evidence of the existence of a law.

The NEWSPAPER, is the second-hand in the clock of history; and it is not only made of baser metal than those which point to the minute and the hour, but it seldom goes right.

THE OLD NEWSPAPER The most imposing building in a certain country market town is the old Bank, so called familiarly to distinguish it from the new one.

That is not to deny that the paper has its troubles, but to an extent newspapers (like politicians) are merely mirrors of the society they serve.

In that day, the great discovery had not been made that men were merely incidents of newspapers; but the world had the folly to believe that newspapers were incidents of society, and were subject to its rules and interests.

The newspapers of this week are the history of the world for this week.

It is hardly too bold to say that the newspaper is the modern world, as distinct from the antique and the mediaeval.

"The daily newspaper is an established factor in civilization, and 'whatever man has done, man can do'an adage that applies equally to girls.

PEMBROKE LODGE, July 18, 1855 MY DEAREST PAPA,I feel very guilty in not having written to you since all these great events occurred, but you are pretty well able to guess what I felt about them ... and the newspapers are much better chroniclers of facts, though not of motives, than I can be....

In the south of Ireland the most influential daily newspaper is the Cork Examiner, which was founded in 1841 by John Francis Maguire, who wrote in 1868 The Irish in America.

But the first newspaper published in the English colonies was the Boston News-Letter, founded in 1704 by John Campbell, a bookseller and postmaster in Boston.

Newspapers are perhaps hardly a fair criterion of the moral status of a peopleor of anything else for that matterbut what they record, and the way they do it, is at least an indication of a condition, and after every possible allowance has been made, what they record is a very alarming standard of public and private morality, both in the happenings themselves and in the fashion of their publicity.

The advancing newspaper, going on from good to better in the substance of its character and the ability of its endeavor, is the type of journalism which affords hope for the future.

The first newspaper had been 'the Weekly Newes', first published May 23, 1622, at a time when, says Sir Erskine May (in his 'Constitutional History of England', 1760-1860), 'political discussion was silenced by the licenser, the Star Chamber, the dungeon, the pillory, mutilation, and branding.'