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There have been three silent revolutions in England: -- first, when the / professions fell off from the church; secondly, when literature fell off / from the professions; and, thirdly, when the press fell off from / literature.
Common phrases are, as it were, so stereotyped now by conventional use, / that it is really much easier to write on the ordinary politics of the day / in the common newspaper style, than it is to make a good pair of shoes.
An apprentice has as much to learn now to be a shoemaker as ever he had; / but an ignorant coxcomb, with a competent want of honesty, may very / effectively wield a pen in a newspaper office, with infinitely less pains / and preparation than were necessary formerly.