The Life of Sir Rowland Hill and the History of Penny Postage, Band 1T. De La Rue & Company, 1880 |
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adopted advantage afterwards already amount appeared appointment arrangement Birmingham boys brother Bruce Castle carried Chancellor charge coach Colonel Maberly Commissioners Committee on Postage considerable conveyance correspondence course difficulty duty early Edgeworth Edinburgh Review effect engaged establishment Exchequer father favour feel give Goulburn Government Hansard Hazelwood Hill's important improvement increase Journal labour late later London Lord Lord Duncannon Lord Lichfield Lord Melbourne machine matter means measure ment mention mode never newspapers number of letters object once opinion paper Parliament passed penny postage perhaps Post Office Reform Postmaster-General present printing proceedings proposed pupils question received recommended reduction regarded shilling Sir George Clerk Sir Robert Peel Sir Rowland Hill Society soon stamps success Third Report Thomas Wright Hill thought took town Treasury Wallace whole Wolverhampton writing wrote
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Seite 26 - The Lord, ye know, is God indeed ; Without our aid he did us make : We are his flock, he doth us feed, And for his sheep he doth us take.
Seite 183 - Strengthened and braced, by breathing in content The keen, the wholesome air of poverty, And drinking from the well of homely life...
Seite 21 - ... if any person be desirous of having an adequate idea of the mischievous effects which have been produced in this country by the French revolution and all its attendant horrors, he should attempt some reforms on humane and liberal principles.
Seite 226 - SIR, HAVING laid before the Lords Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury, your memorial of the 13th ult.
Seite 192 - Bentham had advocated — that the object of all government, and of all social institutions, should be the greatest happiness of the greatest number for the greatest length of time.
Seite 192 - Keble was a man who guided himself and formed his judgments, not by processes of reason, by inquiry or by argument, but, to use the word in a broad sense, by authority.
Seite 268 - Post-office for one penny each, was under consideration, it was proposed by Mr. Charles Knight, the publisher, that the postage on newspapers might be collected by selling stamped wrappers at one penny each. Availing myself of this excellent suggestion, I propose the following arrangement :—Let stamped covers and sheets of paper be supplied to the public from the Stamp-office, or Post-office, as may be most convenient, and sold at such a price as to include the postage: letters so stamped, might...
Seite xxiii - When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing ; all my mind was set Serious to learn and know, and thence to do What might be public good; myself I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things...
Seite 348 - Chancellor proposed a resolution declaring that ' it is expedient to reduce the postage on letters to one uniform rate of one penny charged upon every letter of a weight to be hereafter fixed by law; parliamentary privileges of franking being abolished and official franking strictly regulated ; this House pledging itself at the same time to make good any deficiency of revenue which may be occasioned by such an alteration...
Seite 106 - Expulsion even has been resorted to, " rather than a boy should be submitted to treatment which " might lead himself and his school-fellows to forget that he " was a gentleman." In this we think the Experimentalist very wise : and precisely upon this ground it was that Mr. Coleridge in his lectures at the Royal Institution attacked Mr. Lancaster's system, which deviated from the Madras system chiefly in the complexity of the details, and by pressing so cruelly in its punishments...