| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| Harleian miscellany - 1808 - 588 pages
...sold in PopeVhead Alloy, 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 1655, to set these down in such a Way as may sufficiently instruct me to put any of them in Practice.... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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,... | |
| Arthur Collins - 1812 - 604 pages
...deliver 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,...of a powerful friend, endeavoured, now in the year 1655, to set these down in such a way as may sufficiently instruct me to put any of them to practice."... | |
| 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... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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
...court, and where it grew a merit. He died soon after the Restoration, in 1667, after he had published an amazing piece of folly, " a Century of the names and...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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