| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1839 - 602 pages
...intellectual progress of the people would be accelerated by the unobstructed circulation of letters and of the many cheap and excellent non-political publications of the present day, the post-office assumes the new and important character of a powerful engine of civilization, capable of... | |
| Charles Sumner - Antislavery movements - 1880 - 516 pages
...feeble and inefficient by erroneous financial arrangements," in contemplation of the proposed reform " assumes the new and important character of a powerful...distinguished part in the great work of national education." 4 The proposed reform was vindicated as practical and 1 Dehates, June 15 and December 18, 1837 : Mirror... | |
| Charles Sumner - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1900 - 400 pages
...feeble and inefficient by erroneous financial arrangements," in contemplation of the proposed reform "assumes the new and important character of a powerful...distinguished part in the great work of national education." 4 The proposed reform was vindicated as practical and l Debates, June 15 and December 18, 1837 : Mirror... | |
| Michael A. Crew, Paul R. Kleindorfer - Business & Economics - 1991 - 310 pages
...intellectual progress of the people would be accelerated by the unobstructed circulation of letters and of the many cheap and excellent non-political publications...important character of a powerful engine of civilization. messages and small parcels between citizens. Today, the citizens of the world require a multiplicity... | |
| Michael A. Crew, Paul R. Kleindorfer - Business & Economics - 1999 - 384 pages
...in terms just as strong: of letters and of the many cheap and excellent non-political puhlications of the present day, the Post Office assumes the new...character of a powerful engine of civilization.... (Hill l837l The penny post was eventually expanded to all parts of England hy Rowland Hill's l840 post... | |
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