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" A Century of the Names and Scantlings of such Inventions as at present I can call to mind to have tried and perfected... "
A Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England, Scotland, and Ireland ... - Page 92
by Horace Walpole - 1806
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Conjuror's Magazine, Or Magical and Physiognomical Mirror, Volume 1

Astrology - 1791 - 406 pages
...book, intitled, " A Century of the *' Names and Scantlings of fuch In" ventions as I can at prefent call to " mind to have tried and perfected, " which (my former notes being loft) " I have, at the inftance of a powerful " friend, endeavoured now, in the year *' 1655, to fet...
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Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons: Chiefly of the Present and Two Preceding ...

William Seward - Anecdotes - 1798 - 516 pages
...a little book intitled, " A Century of the Names and Scantlings of " fuch Inventions as at prefent I can call to " mind to have tried and perfected, which (my " former Notes being loft) I have, at the in" fiance of a powerful Friend, endeavoured now cc (the year 1655) to fet down...
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Recreations in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy ...

Jacques Ozanam - Scientific recreations - 1803 - 596 pages
...marquis of Worcester, in the year 1655. And an account of it was printed in a little book, intitled, A Century of the Names and Scantlings of such Inventions as at .present I can call to mind, &c.; in the year 1663. In the 68th article of that work,' the marquis describes the invention in the...
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The Harleian miscellany; or, A collection of ... pamphlets and ..., Volume 6

Harleian miscellany - 1808 - 588 pages
...That makes the soul to smart, And is the cause of his own lust, That commits adultery in his heart. CENTURY OF THE NAMES AND SCANTLINGS Of such inventions,...of a powerful friend, endeavoured now, in the year 1 655, to set these down in such a way as may sufficiently instruct me to put any of them in practice....
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The Harleian Miscellany, Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and ..., Volume 6

William Oldys, John Malham - Great Britain - 1810 - 574 pages
...sold in Pope.Vhead Alley, and at the Exchange, 1655. Quarto, containing twenty-two pages - - - -390 A Century of the Names and Scantlings of such Inventions,...of a powerful Friend, endeavoured now, in the Year 1635, to ье1 these down in such a Way as may sufficiently instruct me to put any of them in Practice....
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The Harleian Miscellany:: A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and ..., Volume 6

Great Britain - 1810 - 578 pages
...That makes the soul to smart, And is the cause of his own lust, That commits adultery in his heart. A CENTURY OF THE NAMES AND SCANTLINGS Of such inventions,...of a powerful friend, endeavoured now, in the year 1635, to set these down in such a way as may sufficiently instruct me to put any of them in practice....
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The Harleian Miscellany: A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and ..., Volume 6

Great Britain - 1810 - 620 pages
...sold in PopeV-head Alley, and at the Exchange, 1655. Quarto, containing twenty-two pages - - - - 390 A Century of the Names and Scantlings of such Inventions, as at present I can call to Mind to bare tried and perfected, which, my former Notes being lost,! have, at the Instance of a powerful Friend,...
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Contains the blood royal, and part of the dukes

Arthur Collins, Sir Egerton Brydges - Aristocracy (Social class) - 1812 - 604 pages
...it to his majesty; and accordingly the patent was delivered up. • His Lordship was the author of A Century of the Names and Scantlings of such Inventions,...to have tried and perfected, which (my former notes leing lost) I have, at the instance of a powerful friend. endeavoured, now in the year 1655, to set...
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Wither's Motto

George Wither - 1814 - 348 pages
...EDWARDS, AND REYNOLDS, PATERNOSTER ROW. 1815. L. A CENTURY THE NAMES AND SCANTLINGS INVENTIONS, As .it present I can call to mind to have tried and perfected...of a powerful Friend, endeavoured now, in the Year 1 655, to set these down in such a way as may sufficiently instruct me to put any of them in practice....
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The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations ..., Volume 15, Issue 2

John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - Architecture - 1814 - 872 pages
...merit. He died soon after the Restoration, in 1667, after he had published an amazing piece of folly, " a Century of the names and scantlings of such inventions...present I can call to mind to have tried and perfected (my former notes being lost.") Among other silly things, this taught " how to use all the senses for...
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