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With one or two scandalous exceptions, the tone of the English press was sober, sensible, and self-possessed.
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John Morley
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gutenberg.orgJohn Morley: “With one or two scandalous exceptions, the tone of the English press was sober, sensible, and self-possessed.”
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Morley reflects on the general quality of the English press during a significant period in British history.
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All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.
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