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James Parton, The life of Horace Greeley, Chapter 26: three months in Europe. (search)
professing to be such, believe more and do less. The only other banquet at which Mr. Greeley was a guest in London during his first visit, was the dinner of the Fishmonger's Company. There he heard a harangue from Sir James Brooke, the Rajah of Borneo. From reading, he had formed the opinion that the Rajah was doing a good work for civilization and humanity in Borneo, but this impression was not confirmed by the ornate and fluent speech delivered by him on this occasion. During Mr. GreeleBorneo, but this impression was not confirmed by the ornate and fluent speech delivered by him on this occasion. During Mr. Greeley's stay in London, the repeal of the taxes on knowledge was agitated in and out of parliament. Those taxes were a duty on advertisements, and a stamp-duty of one penny per copy on every periodical containing news. A parliamentary committee, consisting of eight members of the House of Commons, the Rt. Hon. T. Milnor Gibson, Messrs. Tufnell, Ewart, Cobden, Rich, Adair, Hamilton, and Sir J. Walmsey, had the subject under consideration, and Mr. Greeley, as the representative of the only untrammel