 | William Lewins - Postal service - 1864 - 402 pages
...the time, speaking for the Post-Office authorities, as to its practicability, described the proposal in the House of Lords,* " of all the wild and visionary...I have ever heard of, it is the most extravagant." On a subsequent occasion, his opinion having been subjected for six months to the mellowing influence... | |
 | William Lewins - Postal service - 1865 - 366 pages
...PostmasterGeneral, speaking as to its practicability, described the proposal in the House of Lords,1 " of all the wild and visionary schemes which I have ever heard of, it is the most extravagant." Six months afterwards he is still willing to endorse all he said in June : " Since I made those observations... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1865 - 648 pages
...the Post Office it was at once denounced as ruinous, and ridiculed as visionary. Lord Lichfield, then Postmaster-General, said of it in the House of Lords, " Of all the wild and visionary schemes I ever hoard, it is the most extravagant." On another occasion, he assured the House that if the anticipated... | |
 | 1868 - 808 pages
...the face and attenuated in the revenue, so that it was necessary for another private citizen — Sir. Rowland Hill, late schoolmaster — to interfere,...government with an exceeding great plague of petitions. It 853 053 rained, hailed, and snowed petitions, until two thousand of them, from all classes of society,... | |
 | 1875 - 782 pages
...post-office officials, who denounced it as ruinous and ridiculed it as visionary. The Postmaster-General said in the House of Lords, " Of all the wild and visionary...I have ever heard of, it is the most extravagant." Notwithstanding this opposition the measure was carried, a penny postage was adopted, and the franking... | |
 | 1877 - 750 pages
...not from any portion of the general public, but from the Post Office officials. Lord Lichfield, then Postmaster-General, said of it in the House of Lords, " Of all the wild and visionary schemes of which I have ever heard, it is the most extravagant ! If the anticipated increase of letters," he... | |
 | Anthologies - 1879 - 760 pages
...Office denounced his scheme as ridiculous and visionary. Lord Lichfield, then Postmaster-Genefal, said in the House of Lords, ' Of all the wild and visionary...I have ever heard of, it is the most extravagant.' He said on another occasion, ' The mails will have to carry twelve times as much in weight, and therefore... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Antislavery movements - 1880 - 520 pages
...is obliged to overcome. The record is most instructive. The Postmaster-General, Lord Lichfield, said in the House of Lords : " Of all the wild and visionary...I have ever heard of, it is the most extravagant." On another occasion the same high official assured the House, that, if the anticipated increase of... | |
 | Henry Cole - Art - 1884 - 450 pages
...sent, and not when received, as at present. Lord Lichfield. — Please your most gracious Majesty, " of all the wild and visionary schemes which I have ever heard or read of, it is the most extravagant." * The Queen. — You seem, my Lord, to adhere, not only to... | |
 | sir Henry Cole - 1884 - 446 pages
...sent, and not when received, as at present. Lord Lichfield. — Please your most gracious Majesty, "of all the wild and visionary schemes which I have ever heard or read of, it is the most extravagant." ! The Queen. — You seem, my Lord, to adhere, not only to... | |
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Postmaster-General said in the House of Lords, " Of all the wild and visionary schemes which I have ever heard of, it is the most extravagant. 
