Abler and stronger men I may have met; a cleverer, readier, more generally efficient journalist I never saw.
This announcement did not surprise Seward, for, at the conclusion of Weed's visit to Springfield in the preceding December, Lincoln reminded the journalist that he had said nothing about appointments.
With this the young journalistarrived at Utica on the morning of convention day.
He was fair game for the journalist of Lower Grub Street.
But as a journalist it was necessary I should speak the truth before the people, no matter whether it helped my party or not; and this, of course, reflected on the position of the party.
The central figure of the book is Arvid Falk--Strindberg the idealist--a journalistwhose contact with the world results in a series of disillusionments.
Dorothy considered that her party was a success, and she was pleased to observe that Sylvia was evidently struck by the intelligence of a young Liberal journalist called Vernon Townsend.
In the late afternoon the journalist and the neophyte went to the Luxembourg, and sat down under the trees in that part of the gardens which lies between the broad Avenue de l'Observatoire and the Rue de l'Ouest.
Lousteau's newspaper was of service now to Coralie and Lucien, little as they suspected it; for the tailor, dressmaker, and milliner were afraid to meddle with a journalist who was quite capable of writing down their establishments.
Roles must come to find Coralie; she was too proud to implore authors or to submit to dishonoring conditions; she would not give herself to the first journalist who persecuted her with his advances and threatened her with his pen.
The parvenu journalist will be succeeded by the starveling hack.
You would be so delighted to exercise your power of life and death over the offspring of the brain, that you would be an out-and-out journalist in two months' time.
The journalistrose to his feet, and the pair went up and down the broad Avenue de l'Observatoire, as if their lungs craved ampler breathing space.
Hector Merlin, short and thin, with lips always tightly compressed, was the most dangerous journalist present.
Why cannot I turn journalist to sell my volume of poetry and the novel, and then give up at once?
That youthful journalist would, doubtless, explain the mysteries that enveloped the paper for which he wrote.
A peasant or a pettifogging solicitor might very easily overreach an astute diplomate over a bargain in some remote country village; and the wiliest journalist may prove the veriest simpleton in a piece of business.
You are a journalist with all your illusions left.
They are very few and far between in that great fermenting vat; rare as love in love-making, rare as fortunes honestly made in business, rare as thejournalist whose hands are clean.
That journalistcompletely deceived the Encyclopaedists by his transatlantic canards.
Questions asked me by a leading London journalistregarding the election.
Of the various matters which arose between us, one is perhaps worthy of mention, since it has recently given rise to a controversy between a German-American journalist and Bismarck's principal biographer.
In The Perfect Lover Mr Sutro handles him seriously, and that play contains an elaborate picture of a weak-minded journalist as well as a wicked solicitor.
Again, it is doubtful if any South African journalist possesses the experience of Mr. Vere Stent, the editor of the `Pretoria News'.
Another English journalistwrote to the `Sunday Post' that the hardships are exaggerated, as he had himself seen only twelve families evicted in one day and on one farm.
The hardest lesson the journalist must learn is the development of the impersonal viewpoint.
I believe that a journalist should write only what he holds in his heart to be true.
It makes no difference whether such a man's force and ability betray themselves in the career of money-maker or politician, soldier or orator, journalist or popular leader.
The power of the journalist is great, but he is entitled neither to respect nor admiration because of that power unless it is used aright.
By Paxton Hibben, an American journalist who took part in these diplomatic transactions, pp.
The words employed were few, but a journalist of McMurtrie's experience instinctively covered the bare bones with a respectable integument, and clothed this with a quite picturesque raiment by force of the more ornamental parts of speech.
I know nothing of Willis's morals, but should suppose him above anything mean, or what would render him justly amenable to the censure of those who have long admired him as a leading journalist and charming writer.
My new fellow-journalist had come to our chief from his own region in northwestern Ohio; I do not know but from his old newspaper there.
We listened with the inward disrespect which youth feels for the uninvited censure of age, but with the outward patience due the famous journalist (of such dim fame already!
I Journalism was not my ideal, but it was my passion, and I was passionately a journalist well after I began author.
Mr. Howells was certainly no exception to the rule, and to the foundation of his early education as a compositor and journalist he added four years of study of the Italian language and literature in the pleasant environment of Venice.
A born journalist and reporter, his publications first saw the light in ephemeral Indian sheets.
William Thomas Arnold, Journalistand Historian, by Mrs. Humphry Ward and C.
However, I rather liked the look of the man, and didn't like to disappoint him altogether, being a journalist myself.
It would be impertinent on the part of any English journalist to use the ordinary language at his command to describe that scene.
The detective, more and more astonished, considered the journalist with the utmost attention.
The miserable soldier seemed crushed to the earth; but with a movement of his head he signified that he was prepared to do whatever the journalist ordered.
Our journalist feigned indifference: it was the best way to draw Juve on, he well knew.
They knew that on many occasions this well-informed journalist had rendered immense services to honest folk and to society in general by placing his intelligence and energy at the service of every good cause.
Our journalist was not anxious as to the result of his interview; it was not his first experience of the kind, and this time his task was rendered especially easy, owing to the letter of introduction which M.
Not to risk losing his train, our journalist meant to dine at the Lyons railway station.
Through a journalist who was received in the de Naarboveck family circle the day after the drama.
Not in the least disposed to unbosom himself to this defending counsel imposed on him by law, Fandor was about to give him a freezing reception, but at sight of the new arrival's face our journalist stood speechless.
Our journalist was now eloquent, now persuasive: he heaped argument on argument, he appealed to his self-respect, to duty!
Playing with children is a glorious thing; but thejournalist in question has never understood why it was considered a soothing or idyllic one.
Then the journalist sends off his copy and turns his attention to the enigma of whether a brother should commandeer a sister's necklace because the sister pinched him at Littlehampton.
Why is a professional author necessarily less desirable as an amateur journalist than a professional plumber or boiler-maker?
By this method it is hoped that no amateur journalist will again be forced to suffer for faults not his own, as so many have suffered in the past.
The journalist took a casual glance about the wide stretch of water, and with an unconscious gesture that had become habitual with him flung back the lock of hair that dangled over his right eyebrow.
He said he was a journalist and asked me to buy him a typewriting machine.
Although a journalist of great influence and capacity, Greeley was an erratic individual, whose appearance and manner were the joy of the cartoonist.
The effectiveness of so compelling a personality was in no way diminished by Roosevelt's possession of what a journalist would call "news sense.
