 | Jacques Ozanam - 1803 - Liczba stron: 596
...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... | |
 | 1810 - Liczba stron: 620
...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,... | |
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - 1814 - Liczba stron: 872
...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... | |
 | John Britton - 1814 - Liczba stron: 842
...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... | |
 | 1822 - Liczba stron: 734
...machine the steam engine, had gone through several editions unknown to Lord Orford. The first was " A Century of the Names and Scantlings of such Inventions, as at present 1 can call to mind to have tried and perfected, which (my former notes being lost) I have, at the instance... | |
 | Robert Stuart - 1824 - Liczba stron: 334
...called by Walpole with much truth " an amazing piece of folly," was published by the Marquis himself, under the title of " A Century of the Names and Scantlings...present I can call to mind to have tried and perfected, (my former notes being lost,) 1663."* It had two dedications : the first to King Charles II. ; and... | |
 | Robert Stuart - 1829 - Liczba stron: 372
...called by Walpole with much truth " an amazing piece of folly," was published by the Marquis himself, under the title of " A Century of the Names and Scantlings...present I can call to mind to have tried and perfected, (my former notes being lost,) 1663."* It had two dedications : the first to King Charles II. ; and... | |
 | Hugo Reid - 1838 - Liczba stron: 234
...WORCESTER. 1 663. 180. Edward Somerset, Marquis of Worcester, published, in 1663, a small work, entitled, "A Century of the Names and Scantlings of such Inventions...I can call to Mind, to have Tried and Perfected," &c. In this work, (in which, he says, the descriptions are " in such a way as may sufficiently instruct... | |
 | Thomas Frognall Dibdin - 1838 - Liczba stron: 742
...* In ] 663, the celebrated work of the Earl of Glamorgan, afterwards Marquis of Worcester, appeared under the title of A Century of the Names and Scantlings of such Inventions as I can call to mind to have tried and perfected, l$c. In this strange, but on no account valueless work,... | |
 | E.C. and W. Osborne - 1840 - Liczba stron: 334
...that a windmill is by a stream of air. In 1663, the Marquis of Worcester published a book entitled "A Century of the Names and Scantlings of such Inventions...present I can call to Mind to have Tried and Perfected." In this work the nobleman in his peculiar egotistical style, indicates his acquaintance with the nature... | |
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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... 
