Old Post Bags: The Story of the Sending of a Letter in Ancient and Modern TimesD. Appleton, 1928 - 499 strani Beginn d. Briefeschreibens / Briefbeförderung / frühe Postsysteme / Postdienste im Mittelalter / Post im Orient / Turn und Taxis - Post / Frankreich / britische Post / Postgeschichte in Amerika / koloniale Post / American Post Office / 1. Weltkrieg / Übersee - Post / Briefmarken / Frankaturen / 19. Jahrhundert / Zeichnungen u. Fotos zu allen Themen. |
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American appointed arrived bags became began boats Boston British called carried the mail carrier carry letters cents century charge communication courier Cursus publicus delivered delivery dispatches dollars early Emperor England established Europe express fifty four France frank French German horses hundred Indian journey King later London mail coach mail service matter merchants miles newspapers night organization Overland packet paid paper parcels Paris passed passengers penny penny post persons Philadelphia pigeons portmanteau post horn Post Office Department postal service postal system postilion postmaster Postmaster-General postmen postrider pounds quipus railroads rates reached received riders River road rode route royal says sent speed stage stagecoach stamps stations Swiss Post Taxis post thousand Thurn and Taxis tion to-day took town twenty vehicles wagon week William Dockwra writing wrote York
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Stran 11 - Night sank upon the dusky beach, and on the purple sea, Such night in England ne'er had been, nor e'er again shall be. From Eddystone to Berwick bounds, from Lynn to Milford Bay, That time of slumber was as bright and busy as the day ; For swift to east and swift to west the ghastly war-flame spread ; High on St.
Stran 134 - tis the twanging horn o'er yonder bridge, That with its wearisome but needful length Bestrides the wintry flood, in which the moon Sees her unwrinkled face reflected bright ;— He comes, the herald of a noisy world, With spattered boots, strapped waist, and frozen locks ; News from all nations lumbering at his back.
Stran 134 - 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.
Stran 173 - The vital experience of the glad animal sensibilities made doubts impossible on the question of our speed; we heard our speed, we saw it, we felt it as a thrilling; and this speed was not the product of blind, insensate agencies, that had no sympathy to give, but was incarnated in the fiery eyeballs of the noblest amongst brutes, in his dilated nostril, spasmodic muscles, and thunder-beating hoofs.
Stran 151 - Yoho, by churches dropped down by themselves in quiet nooks, with rustic burial-grounds about them, where the graves are green, and daisies sleep — for it is evening — on the bosoms of the dead. Yoho, past streams, in which the cattle cool their feet, and where the rushes, grow; past paddock-fences, farms, and rick-yards; past last year's stacks, cut, slice by slice, away, and showing, in the waning light, like ruined gables, old and brown. Yoho, down the pebbly dip, and through the merry water-splash,...
Stran 164 - Tom to find himself sitting next that coachman ; for of all the swells that ever flourished a whip, professionally, he might have been elected Emperor. He didn't handle his gloves like another man, but put them on — even when he was standing on the pavement, quite detached from the coach — as if the four grays were, somehow or other, at the ends of the fingers.
Stran 273 - The carriages were old and shackling and much of the harness was made of ropes. One pair of horses carried the stage eighteen miles. We generally reached our resting place for the night, if no accident intervened, at ten o'clock and after a frugal supper went to bed with a notice that we should be called at three the next morning, which generally proved to be half past two.
Stran 274 - Now, gentlemen, to the right;" upon which the passengers all stretched their bodies half way out of the carriage to balance it on that side: "Now, gentlemen, to the left,
Stran 167 - The mail-coach it was that distributed over the face of the land, like the opening of apocalyptic vials, the heart-shaking news of Trafalgar, of Salamanca, of Vittoria, of Waterloo.
Stran 151 - Yoho, among the gathering shades; making of no account the deep reflections of the trees, but scampering on through light and darkness, all the same, as if the light of London fifty miles away, were quite enough to travel by, and some to spare. Yoho, beside the...