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Ch. Form Notes . 3. If this be not enough, a colour may be added
to this stamp, as is done in stamping letters at
the local Post-Offices.
4. In For the composition of the colour two such ingredients
might be employ'd selected, of such a nature as that
one of them my would be enlivened , by any
menstruum by which the other could be obliterated .
5. In the composition of the paper an ingredient
might be added if such a nature as to
betray by change of colour the action of any
menstruum by which the any colour on the mark
would be discharged.
6. In the successive years , different modes of marking
might be employ'd in the same instrument ,
and, the spaces for the years bring so small and so
close , the peril difficulty of any obliterative experiment would
be extreme . A single year's interest would scarcely
be an object in the instance of the largest note that
would probably be in currency ; and to make the attempt
a man must not only be in possession of
the principal , but put to hazard the loss of the
amount of it.
Of the above indications , the chemical part was
suggested partly by the general and known principles of the science ,
partly by particular trials made long ago
in this view .
But in the Royal Institution , now in the vigour
and ardour of youth , government possesses an Office
of appropriate reference, the indication of which supersedes every thing
of detail that could be suggested by an individual, whose opportunities [+] [+] opportunities of information do not admitt of his regarding himself as adequate to such a task .
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jeremy bentham |
1798 a<…> |
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frances wright |
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