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... postage were established at nine cents for eighty miles , or under ; from New York to Philadelphia eight- een cents , to Virginia twenty - four cents . In 1710 the postal service of the British empire was consolidated into one ...
... postage were established at nine cents for eighty miles , or under ; from New York to Philadelphia eight- een cents , to Virginia twenty - four cents . In 1710 the postal service of the British empire was consolidated into one ...
Seite 89
... postage to be paid in pennyweights and grains of silver according to the distance of transmission , the rates to be doubled for doubled letters , and packets The articles of the confederation proving inefficient and inadequate to 1875 ...
... postage to be paid in pennyweights and grains of silver according to the distance of transmission , the rates to be doubled for doubled letters , and packets The articles of the confederation proving inefficient and inadequate to 1875 ...
Seite 90
... postage during the Revolution were raised several times as the Con- tinental currency depreciated in value , but were subsequently reduced and made payable in specie . In 1792 the rates were revised and established at six cents for ...
... postage during the Revolution were raised several times as the Con- tinental currency depreciated in value , but were subsequently reduced and made payable in specie . In 1792 the rates were revised and established at six cents for ...
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... postage . It may be divided into three periods : the first from 1775 to 1820 , a period of forty - five years , in ... postage , from fourteen and one half cents to less than three cents . Great Britain we are indebted for the evidence ...
... postage . It may be divided into three periods : the first from 1775 to 1820 , a period of forty - five years , in ... postage , from fourteen and one half cents to less than three cents . Great Britain we are indebted for the evidence ...
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... postage was adopted , and the franking and trans- mission of letters by private convey- ance prohibited . The number of let- ters transmitted in 1839 was 76,000 , - 000 ; in 1840 , the first year of cheap postage , it was 168,000,000 ...
... postage was adopted , and the franking and trans- mission of letters by private convey- ance prohibited . The number of let- ters transmitted in 1839 was 76,000 , - 000 ; in 1840 , the first year of cheap postage , it was 168,000,000 ...
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Seite 555 - And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth ; and the mule that was under him went away.
Seite 128 - ... the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the legislatures of the States may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions in life.
Seite 322 - In view of the adjudications these principles must be regarded as settled : " 1. A railroad corporation is a person within the meaning of the fourteenth amendment declaring that no state shall deprive any person of property without due process of law, nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Seite 488 - When the Sun rises, do you not see a round disk of fire somewhat "like a Guinea?" O no, no, I see an Innumerable company of the Heavenly host crying 'Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty.
Seite 483 - Whether in heaven ye wander fair Or the green corners of the earth, Or the blue regions of the air, Where the melodious winds have birth...
Seite 69 - WHEN I was a boy, there was but one permanent ambition among my comrades in our village* on the west bank of the Mississippi River. That was, to be a steamboatman. We had transient ambitions of other sorts, but they were only transient. When a circus came and went, it left us all burning to become clowns ; the first negro minstrel show that ever came to our section left us all suffering to try that kind of life...
Seite 375 - Christ and other Masters. A Historical Inquiry into some of the Chief Parallelisms and Contrasts between Christianity and the Religious Systems of the Ancient World.
Seite 289 - All the grace, the beauty, the poetry, had gone out of the majestic river!
Seite 219 - You— you— don't know?" mimicking my drawling manner of speech. "What do you know?" "I— I— nothing, for certain." "By the great Caesar's ghost, I believe you! You're the stupidest dunderhead I ever saw or ever heard of, so help me Moses! The idea of you being a pilot— you! Why, you don't know enough to pilot a cow down a lane.
Seite 471 - I slept soundly till three o'clock, awaked, and then wrote these lines : — Come, pleasing rest, eternal slumber, fall, Seal mine, that once must seal the eyes of all ; Calm and composed, my soul her journey takes, No guilt that troubles, and no heart that aches ; Adieu ! thou sun, all bright like her arise ; Adieu ! fair friends, and all that's good and wise.