 | Horace Walpole - 1796 - 398 páginas
...amazing piece of folly : " A century of the names and fcantlings of fuch " inventions as at prefent I can call to mind to " have tried and perfected (my former notes be" ing loft), &c." Firft printed in the year 1663, and reprinted in 1746. It is a very fmall piece,... | |
 | Jacques Ozanam - 1803 - 596 páginas
...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 - 1806 - 434 páginas
...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,...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... | |
 | Harleian miscellany - 1808 - 588 páginas
...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,...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... | |
 | William Oldys, John Malham - 1810 - 574 páginas
...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,...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... | |
 | 1810 - 620 páginas
...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, Sir Egerton Brydges - 1812 - 604 páginas
...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,...present I can call to mind to have tried and perfected, which (my former notes leing lost) I have, at the instance of a powerful friend. endeavoured, now in... | |
 | Arthur Collins - 1812 - 604 páginas
...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,...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... | |
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - 1814 - 872 páginas
...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...tried and perfected (my former notes being lost.") Among other silly things, this taught " how to use all the senses for each other ; to talk by colours... | |
 | John Britton - 1814 - 842 páginas
...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 as at present I can call to mind to have Uied and perfected (.my former notes being lost.") Among other siUy things, this tanght " how to nse... | |
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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... 
