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8. oldal
They did not wait till their letters We confess to harbouring something like a were
written , but bought blank half - sheets , tender affection for those little
parallelogram which they folded as envelopes , and got them mic portraits of Her
Majesty in ...
They did not wait till their letters We confess to harbouring something like a were
written , but bought blank half - sheets , tender affection for those little
parallelogram which they folded as envelopes , and got them mic portraits of Her
Majesty in ...
9. oldal
It is said that paper ; for , on looking at the back of the upwards of a thousand
different designs sheet , you will see that every one of the and plans were sent in
; but it does not Queen ' s heads falls on a regal crown , imappear that any one of
...
It is said that paper ; for , on looking at the back of the upwards of a thousand
different designs sheet , you will see that every one of the and plans were sent in
; but it does not Queen ' s heads falls on a regal crown , imappear that any one of
...
10. oldal
But the destiny of all stamps , at last , figure in a window for weeks , or it may be is
to be stuck , like a limpet on a rock , on the torn from the sheet to - morrow , and
consigned envelope of a letter ; and now it is that its to the pocket - book of the ...
But the destiny of all stamps , at last , figure in a window for weeks , or it may be is
to be stuck , like a limpet on a rock , on the torn from the sheet to - morrow , and
consigned envelope of a letter ; and now it is that its to the pocket - book of the ...
27. oldal
Of this | sheet of the Lombardy series , as well as the type I have seen four
varieties . Austrian . The blue specimen is the only 1 . The stamp very badly
executed ; the one noted in the catalogue as perforated ; spandrils white . but ,
except the ...
Of this | sheet of the Lombardy series , as well as the type I have seen four
varieties . Austrian . The blue specimen is the only 1 . The stamp very badly
executed ; the one noted in the catalogue as perforated ; spandrils white . but ,
except the ...
35. oldal
I should have I was just putting the glass to my lips , stated that my friend had
trusted me with a when the cool audacity of this proposition ! sheet of postage
stamps of different countallied so ill with the hot gin and water , as tries , to assist
my ...
I should have I was just putting the glass to my lips , stated that my friend had
trusted me with a when the cool audacity of this proposition ! sheet of postage
stamps of different countallied so ill with the hot gin and water , as tries , to assist
my ...
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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.
128. 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.
129. 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...
128. 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.
128. 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.
57. oldal - He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
129. 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.
128. 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.