 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1845 - 466 pages
...contest between Charles I. and the parliament. The Marquess of Worcester's famous publication entitled ' 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), &c.,' was first printed in 1663. " It is a very small piece," says Walpole,... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - English literature - 1845 - 682 pages
...former notes," and, in order to supply them in a degree, he himself remarks, " I set down (the heads) as at present I can call to mind to have tried and perfected them, in such a way as may sufficiently instruct me to put any of them in practice." He dedicates his... | |
 | Bernard Burke - Anecdotes - 1850 - 362 pages
...small book, entitled, " A Century of the Names and Scantlings of such Inventions as I can at present call to mind to have tried and perfected, which (my...the instance of a powerful friend, endeavoured now, 1665, to set these down in such a way as may sufficiently instruct me to put them in practice." To... | |
 | American periodicals - 1851 - 604 pages
...his work he has left a record, couched in mysterious language, in the well-known volume entitled " A Century of the Names and Scantlings of such Inventions...lost) I have, at the instance of a powerful friend, endeavored now, in the year 1655, to set these down in such a way as may sufficiently instruct me to... | |
 | Bernard Burke - Anecdotes - 1851 - 348 pages
...small book, entitled, "A Century of the Names and Scantlings of such Inventions as I can at present call to mind to have tried and perfected, which (my...the instance of a powerful friend, endeavoured now, 1665, to set these down in such a way as may sufficiently instruct me to put them in practice." To... | |
 | Hugo Reid - Steam engineering - 1851 - 292 pages
...— 1663. 199. Edward Somerset, Marquis of Worcester, published, in 1663, a small work, entitled " A Century of the Names and Scantlings of such Inventions...present I can call to mind to have Tried and Perfected," <fec. In this work, (in which, he says, the descriptions are " in such a way as may sufficiently instruct... | |
 | William Chambers - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1853 - 858 pages
...year 1663, a work was published by the Marquis of Worcester, named, in the language of that period, " A Century of the Names and Scantlings of such Inventions...present I can call to mind to have tried and perfected." The following extract, describing what he terms a " fire water-work," seems distinctly to convey the... | |
 | Robert Scott Burn - Technology & Engineering - 1854 - 214 pages
...who bad undergone many changes of fortune in the civil wars of England, published a work entitled " A Century of the Names and Scantlings of such Inventions...friend, endeavoured now, in the year 1655, to set down in such a way as may sufficiently instruct me to put any of them in practice." Amongst the numerous... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - Authors, English - 1854 - 344 pages
...differing opinions have been given. The very name of this work is whimsical, and yet not unattractive: " A Century of the Names and Scantlings of such Inventions...at the instance of a powerful Friend, endeavoured no\v, in the Year 1655, to set these down in such a way as may sufficiently Instruct me to put any... | |
 | Bernard Quaritch (Firm) - Antiquarian booksellers - 1874 - 904 pages
...numerous illustrations of machinery and processes. 4103 WOKCESTEK (Marquis of) CESTUBY OF INVENTIONS; a Century of the Names and Scantlings of such Inventions...present I can call to mind to have tried and perfected, very scarce, Glasgow, 1767 — Locke (J.) Elements of Natural Philosophy, and Thoughts on Reading and... | |
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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... 
