 | Charles Knight - 1841 - 440 pagine
...Mr. Palmer stated, in the plan presented to Mr. Pitt, that " the mail is generally intrusted to tome idle boy without character, mounted on a worn-out...able to defend himself, or escape from a robber, is much more likely to be in league with him ;" and he suggested the discontinuance of this horse-post,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1844 - 776 pagine
...the frequent robbery of the qytil, but without effect. Indeed, it is at present generally entrusted to some idle boy, without character, mounted on a...able to defend himself, or escape from a robber, is much more likely to be in league with him." The existence of such a state of things as this little... | |
 | 1856 - 706 pagine
...Bristol twice a week, under a stipulation that the distance (65 miles) should be performed in 24 hours. mounted on a worn-out hack, and who, so far from being...able to defend himself or escape from a robber, is much more likely to be in league with him." Mr. Palmer, who was manager of the theatre of Bath, had... | |
 | John Edwin BRADFIELD - 1855 - 128 pagine
...the frequent robbery of the mail, but without effect. Indeed, it is at present generally entrusted to some idle boy, without character, mounted on a...able to defend himself, or escape from a robber, is much more likely to be in league with him*." The existence of such a state of things as this, little... | |
 | 1856 - 1492 pagine
...stipulation that the distance (Co miles) should be performed in 24 hours. mounted on a woru-out liack, and who, so far from being able to defend himself or escape from a robber, is much more likely to be in league with him." Mr. Palmer, who was manager of the theatre of Bath, had... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1861 - 654 pagine
...was an end of robberies of the mail — of the system under which " the mail is generally entrusted to some idle boy without character, mounted on a worn-out...able to defend himself, or escape from a robber, is much more likely to be in league with him."* The letters went safely, and they went at twice or thrice... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1861 - 622 pagine
...under which " the mail is generally entrusted to some idle boy without character, mounted on a vorn-out hack, and who, so far from being able to defend himself, or escape from a robber, is much more likely to be in league with him."* The letters went safely, and they went at twice or thrice... | |
 | Chambers's journal - 1862 - 432 pagine
...schemes to Mr Pitt : ' The mails are generally intrusted to some idle boy -withont character, mounted ou a worn-out hack, and who, so far from being able to...robber, is more likely to be in league with him.' This testimony, though it might not be unbiassed, seems in the main to have been true. Anybody might... | |
 | 1863 - 594 pagine
...the post office, says of them in his report, when introducing his schemes to Mr. Pitt : ' The mails are generally intrusted to some idle boy without character,...robber, is more likely to be in league with him.' This testimony, though it might not be unbiassed, seems in the main to have been true. Anybody might... | |
 | William Lewins - 1864 - 390 pagine
...proportionately mended their speed, the post is as slow as ever." The system is also unsafe ; robberies are frequent, and he saw not how it could be otherwise...suppose, it was simply because thieves had found, by long practice, that the mails were scarcely worth robbing — the booty to be obtained being comparatively... | |
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The mails are generally intrusted to some idle boy, without character, mounted on a wornout hack, and who, so far from being able to defend himself or escape from a robber, is much more likely to be in league with him. 
