 | 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 - 1796 - 560 pages
...little book entitled, *v A Century of the Names and Scantlings of fuch tv Inventions as at prefent I can 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 (the year " '655) to fet down... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Horace Walpole - English literature - 1806 - 434 pages
...long survive that aera, dying in 1667, after he had published the following amazing piece of folly: " A Century of the Names and Scantlings of such Inventions,...of a powerful Friend, endeavoured now in the Year l655, to set these down in such a Way as may sufficiently instruct me to put any of them in Practice... | |
 | 1807 - 1016 pages
...addicted to the polite arts, and but little acquainted with mathematics, has considered the tract entitled "A century of the names and scantlings of such inventions as at present I can call to mind to navo tried and perfected," by the Marquis oi' Worcester, as "an amazing piece of folly." The editor... | |
 | Harleian miscellany - 1808 - 588 pages
...if Meat make my Brother to offend, I will never eat Flesh while the World stands, 1 Cor. viii. 13. 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.... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | 1811 - 676 pages
...Cuvailo's Elements of Natural or Experimental Philosophy. 4 vols. bds. plata. 2Í 2». ib. 1803 961 Century of the names and scantlings of such inventions,...mind to have tried and perfected, which (my former note being lost.) I have endeavoured now to set these down in such a way as may sufficiently instruct... | |
 | 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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A CENTURY OF THE NAMES AND SCANTLINGS OF SUCH INVENTIONS, as at present I can call to mind to have tried and perfected which (my former notes being lost) I have, at the instance of a powerful Friend, endeavoured now in the year 1655 to set these down... 
