 Perhaps this difficulty might be obviated by using a bit of paper just large enough to bear the stamp, and covered at the back with a glutinous wash, which the bringer might, by applying a little moisture, attach to the back of the letter, so as to avoid...  The Quarterly Review - Page 390edited by - 1913Full view - About this book
 | sir Rowland Hill - 1837 - 126 pages
...Perhaps this difficulty might be obviated by using a bit of paper just large enough to bear the stamp,and covered at the back with a glutinous wash, which the bringer might, by applying a little moisture, attach to the back of the letter, so as to avoid the necessity for re-directing... | |
 | 1839 - 546 pages
...Perhaps this difficulty might be obviated by using a bit of paper just large enough to bear the stamp, and covered at the back with a glutinous wash, which the bringer might, by applying a little moisture, attach to the back of the letter, so as to avoid the necessity of re-directing... | |
 | 1839 - 558 pages
...Perhaps this difficulty might be obviated by using a bit of paper just large enough to bear the stamp, and covered at the back with a glutinous wash, which the bringer might, by applying a little moisture, attach to the back of the letter, so as to avoid the necessity of re-directing... | |
 | Sir Rowland Hill, George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1880 - 600 pages
...bear the stamp, and covered at the back with a glutinous wash, which the bringer might, by applying a little moisture, attach to the back of the letter,...so as to avoid the necessity for redirecting it."* It is curious to observe, by the last paragraph of the above, that the adhesive stamp, now of universal... | |
 | Sir Rowland Hill, George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1880 - 596 pages
...Perhaps this difficulty might be obviated by using a bit of paper just large enough to bear the stamp, and covered at the back with a glutinous wash, which the bringer might, by applying a little moisture, attach to the back of the letter, so as to avoid the necessity for redirecting... | |
 | Henry James Nicoll - 1881 - 506 pages
...Perhaps the difficulty might be obviated by using a piece of paper quite large enough to bear the stamp, and covered at the back with a glutinous wash, which the bringer might, by applying a little moisture, attach to the back of the letter, so as to avoid the necessity for re-directing... | |
 | Henry James Nicoll - 1882 - 514 pages
...Perhaps the difficulty might be obviated by using a piece of paper quite large enough to bear the stamp, and covered at the back with a glutinous wash, which the bringer might, by applying a little moisture, attach to the back of the letter, so as to avoid the necessity for re-directing... | |
 | Patrick Chalmers - 1889 - 58 pages
...to bear the stamp and covered at the back by a glutinuous wash, which the bringer might by applying a little moisture attach to the back of the letter, so as to avoid the necessity of redirecting it." Going on at once, however, to withdraw the compulsion to use a stamp at all : "... | |
 | Patrick Chalmers - 1890 - 80 pages
...to bear the stamp and covered at the back by a glutinous wash, which the bringer might, by applying a little moisture, attach to the back of the letter, so as to avoid the necessity of redirecting it." Going on at once, 33 however, as Sir Eowland Hill admits in his " History of Penny... | |
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