 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 552 páginas
...is better informed than he who reads them ; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors....paper into four chapters, heading the 1st, Truths. 2nd, Probabilities. 3rd, Possibilities. 4th, Lies. The 1st chapter would be vety short, as it would... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 594 páginas
...is better informed than he who reads them ; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors....Perhaps an editor might begin a reformation in some such as this. Divide his paper into four chapters, heading the 1st, Truths. 2nd, Probabilities. 3rd, Possibilities.... | |
 | Friedrich von Raumer - 1846 - 522 páginas
...and errors. He * See Writings, iii. 267, 269, 279, 230. t Tucker's Life of Jefferson, ii. 109, 120. who reads nothing will still learn the great facts,...1st, Truths. 2d, Probabilities. 3d, Possibilities. 4lh, Lies," &c. " Defamation is becoming a necessary of life'; insomuch, that a dish of tea in the... | |
 | Joseph Glover Baldwin - 1855 - 380 páginas
...is better informed than he who reads them ; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors....learn the great facts, and the details are all false." This letter is another illustration of the one-sidedness to which Jefferson's mind was so prone, when... | |
 | James Parton - 1858 - 728 páginas
...whose mmd is filled with O falsehood and errors. He who reads nothing will still learn the great foots, and the details are all false. " Perhaps an editor...chapters, heading the 1st. Truths, 2d. Probabilities, 8d. Possibilities, 4th. Lies. The first chapter would be very short, as it would contain little more... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1885 - 1006 páginas
...them, inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehood and errors. He who reads nothing will still learn the great facts, and the details are all false." These extremely pessimistic remarks upon a power which calls itself the fourth estate of the realm,... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1885 - 1004 páginas
...them, inasmuch as he who knows uothiug is nearer the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehood and errors. He who reads nothing will still learn the great facts, and the details are all false." These extremely pessimistic remarks upon a power which calls itself the fourth estate of the realm,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1898 - 580 páginas
...inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods & errors. He who reads nothing will still learn the...reformation in some such way as this. Divide his paper into 4 chapters, heading the ist, Truths. 2d, Probabilities. 3d, Possibillities. 4th, Lies. The first chapter... | |
 | Edward Sylvester Ellis - 1898 - 156 páginas
...weighed against the affections of one with whom we are to pass our whole life! EDITORS AND NEWSPAPERS. Perhaps an editor might begin a reformation in some...this: Divide his paper into four chapters, heading the ist, Truths; ad, Probabilities; 3d, Possibilities; 4th, Lies. The first chapter would be very short,... | |
 | 1198 páginas
...he who knows nothing is nearer the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehood ana errors. Ho who reads nothing will still learn the great facts, and the details are all false." C40 047 a power which calls itself the Fourth Estate of tlie realm, and which , as Thackeray said of... | |
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I will add, that the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. He who reads nothing will still learn the... 
