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See also:ALMON, See also:JOHN (1737-1805) , See also:English See also:political pamphleteer and publisher, was See also:born at See also:Liverpool on the 17th of See also:December
1737. In See also:early See also:life he was apprenticed to a printer in his native See also:town, and he also spent two years at See also:sea. He came to See also:London in 1758 and at once began a career which, if not important in itself, had a very important See also:influence on the political See also:history of the See also:country. The Whig opposition, hampered and harassed by the See also:Government to an extent that threatened the See also:total suppression of See also:independent See also:opinion, were in See also:great need of a channel of communication with the public, and they found what they wanted in Almon. He had become personally known to the leaders through various publications of his own which had a great though transient popularity; the more important of these being The Conduct of a See also:late See also:Noble See also:Commander [See also:Lord See also:George See also:Sackville] Examined (1759); a See also:Review of his late See also:Majesty's Reign (1760); a Review of Mr See also:Pitt's See also:Administration (1761); and a number of letters on political subjects. The review of Pitt's administration passed through four See also:editions, and secured for its author the friendship of See also:Earl See also:Temple, to whom it was dedicated. Brought thus into the counsels of the Whig party, he was persuaded in 1763 to open a bookseller's See also:shop in Piccadilly, chiefly for the publication and See also:sale of political See also:pamphlets. This involved considerable See also:personal See also:risk, and though he generally received with every pamphlet a sum sufficient to secure him against all contingencies, he deserves the See also:credit of having done much to secure the freedom of the See also:press. The government strengthened his influence by their repressive See also:measures. In 1765 the See also:attorney-See also:general moved to have him tried for the publication of the pamphlet entitled Juries and Libels, but the See also:prosecution failed; and in 1770, for merely selling a copy of the London Museum containing See also:Junius's celebrated " See also:Letter to the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King," he was sentenced by Lord See also:Mansfield to pay a See also:fine of ten marks and give See also:security for his See also:good behaviour. It was this trial that called forth the letter to Lord Mansfield, one of the bitterest of the Junius See also:series. Almon himself published an See also:account of the trial, and of course did not let slip the opportunity of reprinting the See also:matter that had been the ground of See also:indictment; but no further proceedings were taken against him. In 1774 Almon commenced the publication of his See also:Parliamentary See also:Register, a monthly See also:report of the debates in See also:parliament, and he also issued an abstract of the debates from 1742, when See also:Richard See also:Chandler's Reports ceased, to 1774. About the same See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time, having earned a competency, he retired to Boxmoor in See also:Hertfordshire, though he still continued to write on political subjects. He became proprietor in 1784 of the General Advertiser, in the management of which he lost his See also:fortune and was declared insolvent. To these calamities was added an imprisonment for See also:libel. The claims of his creditors compelled him to leave the country, but after some years in See also:France he was enabled to return to Boxmoor, where he continued a career of undiminished See also:literary activity, See also:publishing among other See also:works an edition of Junius. His last See also:work was an edition of Wilkes's See also:correspondence, with a memoir (18o5). He died on the 12th of December 18o5. Almon's works, most of which appeared anonymously, have no great literary merit, but they are of very considerable value to the student of the political history of the See also:period.
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