Frederick Knight Hunt

Frederick Knight Hunt (1814–1854) was an English journalist, surgeon, editor, and author, noteworthy for his 2-volume The Fourth Estate (1850, David Bogue), a history of journalism. He was a frequent contributor to the weekly magazine Household Words. Quotes The charm of Rhine romanticism The Rhine Tour is increased by the facility with which it is made. Steam engine Steam is our willing slave, ready to bear us, afloat by Steamship vessel and ashore by Steam locomotive railway, on our pilgrimage in search of health, of change, of amusement; of instruction, or the picturesque. Gallantly, in spite of wind and tide, it breasts its way, and places Cologne but a day's journey from London; —as near as the Lake District English Lakes, and nearer than the Scottish Highlands Highlands of Scotland! The Rhine; Its Scenery and Historical and Legendary Associations 1845 https://books.google.com/books?id=vCMu42m8hvYC&pg=PA1 1–2 In like manner as regards colouring, the practice of fresco has never been found to have an unfavourable influence on that of oil painting, bur rather the reverse. Without referring to particular works as instances of the perfection in both methods, which the Italian masters of various schools—Francesco Francia Francia and Raphael, Andrea del Sarto and Guido, Guercino and Il Pordenone Pordenone ... attached, it may be sufficient to mention the example of Antonio da Correggio Correggio,—in the opinion of Reynolds ... the most consummate of painters as regards colour and execution. This great artist painted more in fresco than in oil, looking to the quantify of surface covered. 1846 The Book of Art: Cartoons, Frescoes, Sculpture, and Decorative Art, as Applied to the New Houses of Parliament and to Buildings in General: with an Historical Notice of the Exhibitions in Westminster Hall, and Directions for Painting in Fresco Piccadilly, London Jeremiah How https://books.google.com/books?id=eeZhAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA13 13 There is a morsel of Greenwich Park, which has, for now nearly two centuries, been held sacred from intrusion. It is the portion inclosed by the walls of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich Observatory. Certain a hundred thousand visitors must ramble over the surrounding lawns, and look with curious eyes upon the towers and outer boundaries of that little citadel of science, for one who finds admission to the interior of the building. The Planet-Watchers of Greenwich Household Words: Conducted by Charles Dickens 25 May 1850 200–204 https://www.royalobservatorygreenwich.org/articles.php?article=1250 (quote from p. 200; see Royal Observatory, Greenwich) All men, now-a-days, who read at al, read Newspapers ...... For the idle, it is a friendly gossip; to the busy, it shows what business is on hand; for the politician, it reflects the feelings of party; for the holiday-maker, it talks about new Play (theatre) plays, new music, and the last exhibition. Its ample page is full of the romance of real life, equally with the facts of real life. The types that to-day tell how a king abdicated, or a good man died, tell to-morrow the price of Logwood log-wood or of tallow. The Fourth Estate: Contributions Towards a History of Newspapers, and of the Liberty of the Press vol. 1 of 2 David Bogue Fleet Street, London 1850 https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Fourth_Estate.html?id=p-ZRAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA2 1–2 (302 pages) Bonaparte ... applied to the Court of St. James's, to expel from their refuge, in Great Britain, the French writers, whom he regarded as the authors of the attacks upon his policy and proceedings. Peace then existed between the French Directory and the English King, but this demand, conceived in the spirit of a military dictator, was not to be complied with by a Constitutional monarchy constitutional monarch. The Fourth Estate: Contributions Towards a History of Newspapers, and of the Liberty of the Press vol. 2 of 2 Fleet Street, London David Bogue https://books.google.bi/books?id=maA4AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA3 3 (298 pages) External links Category:1814 births Category:1854 deaths Category:Editors from England Category:Journalists from England Category:Non-fiction authors from England Category:Surgeons