The Stamp-collector's magazine, 1-3. kötet1863 |
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2. oldal
... packet of old letters laden with the stamp in demand . We have seen a set of the Nevis stamps the same evening pass from hand to hand for four , six , and eight shillings succes- sively , and even at the last price bought to sell again ...
... packet of old letters laden with the stamp in demand . We have seen a set of the Nevis stamps the same evening pass from hand to hand for four , six , and eight shillings succes- sively , and even at the last price bought to sell again ...
8. oldal
... packet of them in the corner of one's porte - monnaie , even though that handy receptacle should contain little else , always has a welcome look , not so much for the trifling pecuniary value they represent , as from the really ...
... packet of them in the corner of one's porte - monnaie , even though that handy receptacle should contain little else , always has a welcome look , not so much for the trifling pecuniary value they represent , as from the really ...
15. oldal
... Packet of Foreign Postage Stamps . Containing 50 Varieties of Foreign Stamps , all in good condition , many being unobliterated . Post free , 5s . 1d . The Foreign Stamp and Crest Depôt , 13 , George Street , Bath . Mount Brown's ...
... Packet of Foreign Postage Stamps . Containing 50 Varieties of Foreign Stamps , all in good condition , many being unobliterated . Post free , 5s . 1d . The Foreign Stamp and Crest Depôt , 13 , George Street , Bath . Mount Brown's ...
23. oldal
... packets of dinners . Instead of paying for your board by the month ( and paying for nothing whenever you are asked out to dinner ) , you keep the tickets in your pocket - book , and , whenever you want to dine , you present one ...
... packets of dinners . Instead of paying for your board by the month ( and paying for nothing whenever you are asked out to dinner ) , you keep the tickets in your pocket - book , and , whenever you want to dine , you present one ...
28. oldal
... Packet Postage , 12 c . , blue . Cape of Good Hope . We understand the wood - block varieties were printed in the colony , during a defi- ciency of the usually - employed stamps , the ship bringing them from England having been delayed ...
... Packet Postage , 12 c . , blue . Cape of Good Hope . We understand the wood - block varieties were printed in the colony , during a defi- ciency of the usually - employed stamps , the ship bringing them from England having been delayed ...
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77. oldal - The popular harangue, the tart reply, The logic, and the wisdom, and the wit, And the loud laugh — I long to know them all ; I burn to set the imprisoned wranglers free, And give them voice and utterance once again.
77. oldal - And having dropped the expected bag — pass on. He whistles as he goes, light-hearted wretch, Cold and yet cheerful: messenger of grief Perhaps to thousands, and of joy to some, To him indifferent whether grief or joy.
130. oldal - repeated the postmaster. " What's that to you? " said Andy. The postmaster, laughing at his simplicity, told him he could not tell what letter to give him, unless he told him the direction. "The directions I got was to get a letther here — that's the directions.
131. oldal - While the postmaster went on with such provoking answers to these appeals for dispatch, Andy's eye caught the heap of letters which lay on the counter: so while certain weighing of soap and tobacco was going forward, he contrived to become possessed of two letters from the heap, and, having effected that, waited patiently enough...
130. oldal - Yes, sir," said the postmaster, producing one— "fourpence." The gentleman paid the fourpence postage, and left the shop with his letter. • " Here's a letter for the squire," said the postmaster ; "you've to pay me elevenpence postage.
130. oldal - Why, you stupid rascal, if you don't tell me his name how can I give you a letter?" "You could give it if you liked ; but you're fond of axin' impident questions, bekase you think I'm simple." " Go along out o' this ! Your master must be as great a goose as yourself, to send such a messenger.
59. oldal - He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
131. oldal - ... could carry him. He came into the squire's presence, his face beaming with delight, and an air of selfsatisfied superiority in his manner, quite unaccountable to his master, until he pulled forth his hand, which had been grubbing up his prizes from...
74. oldal - that we have invented this manner of corresponding and franking our letters.' Mr Hill, having heard of this incident, introduced it into his first pamphlet on postal reform, as a lively illustration of the absurdity of the old system. It was by an inadvertency on the part of a modern historical writer that Mr Hill was ever described as the person to whom the incident happened.
130. oldal - Yis, sir," said Andy, who got astride of his hack, and trotted away to the post-office. On arriving at the shop of the postmaster (for that person carried on a brisk trade in groceries, gimlets, broadcloth, and linendrapery), Andy presented himself at the counter and said: "I want a letther, sir, if you plaze.