...circulate knowledge. The bill, therefore, is either nugatory, or the patent is void ;— and if'the patent be void, Parliament cannot set it up again,...I cannot yet consent to part with this view of the subject.—The bill proposes, that Parliament should subject almanacks to the revision of the King's...

...monopoly in PRINTING, and that it gives, or rather continues it to the Company of Stationers,—the very same body of men who were the literary constables...indulgence : but get the right who may, the principle is ag dangerous, that I cannot yet consent to part with this view of the subject. The bill proposes, that...

...this and other privileges so fully, that in the next century they had the honour of being called " the literary constables to the Star-Chamber, to suppress...science and information, to which we owe our freedom." But Charles I. did even more than his sapient father. He not only encouraged astrology, but he affected...

...this and other privileges so fully, that in the next century they had the honour of being called " the literary constables to the Star-Chamber, to suppress all the science and information, to whkh we owe our freedom." But Charles I. did even more than his sapient father. He not only encouraged...

...Company of Stationers were said in the last century to be the " literary constables," whose duty it was " to suppress all the science and information to which we owe our freedom " (Lord Erskine's Speeches). The principal of these constables, during the reign of Elizabeth, were,...

...the next century they had the honour of being called " the literary constables to the Star Chamber, to suppress all the science and information to which we owe our freedom." But Charles I. did even more than his sapient father. He not only encouraged astrology, but he affected...

...deny, on the other hand, that if they be not such publications as require to be issued or reviewed by authority, they then stand on the general footing...subject. The bill proposes that Parliament should subject almanacs to the revision of the King's authority, when the judges of the common law, the constitutional...

...general liberty of the press. Sir, when I reflect that this proposed monopoly is a monopoly in PKiXTiXG, and that it gives, or rather continues it, to the...subject. The bill proposes that Parliament should subject almanacs to the revision of the King's authority, when the judges of the common law, the constitutional...

...Company of Stationers, the very same body of men who were the literary constables to the Star-Ch amber to suppress all the science and information to which...The bill proposes, that Parliament should subject almanacs to the revision of the King's authority, when the Judges of the common law, the constitutional...