Economist Historical Archive 1843-2000

[Stephen Goranson]

Thanks. Is that part of their "19th Century U.K. Periodicals
...[Available Fall
2007]"? If my trial subscription ends before then, perhaps someone will search
for "lies and statistics." Walter Bagehot, an editor at the Economist,
has been
credited by several writers since 1894 (Price Collier, Mr Picket-Pin and His
Friends p.150; also in 1909, 1912, 1915, 1919, 1947, etc.) with the saying
about three kinds of lies. Of course, it may not be Bagehot, nor in the
Economist, but it seems worth liooking.

Stephen Goranson
http://www.duke.edu/~goranson

Quoting James Knight <jamesknight at CENTURYTEL.NET>:

> All,
>
> I know it's not necessarily for American dialecticians, but thought
> I'd let you all know that Gale is about to release their "Economist
> Historical Archive 1843-2000" digital collection (~September);
> "500,000 pages fully text searchable". I, for one, am looking forward
> to it (though no longer a Gale employee -- which, btw, did everyone
> remember has been sold to a British PE firm).
>
> Anyhoo, the literature points prospective subscribers to
>
>     www.gale.com/GDCTrial
>
> for a free trial.
>
> Best,
>
> -jk
>
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