 | Thomas Ewbank - Hydraulics - 1842 - 638 pages
...and Scantlings [outlines or hints] of such Inventions as at present I can call to mind to have ti ied and perfected ; which, my former notes being lost, I have, at the instance of a powerful friend, endeavored, now in the year 1655, to to set down in such a way as may sufficiently instruct me to put... | |
 | Thomas Ewbank - Hydraulic machinery - 1842 - 608 pages
...Marquis of Worcester, in 1663, entitled " A Century of the Names and Scantlings [outlines or hints] of such Inventions as at present I can call to mind to have ti ied and perfected ; which, my former notes being lost, I have, at the instance of a powerful friend,... | |
 | Thomas Ewbank - Fire engines - 1842 - 612 pages
...Marquis of Worcester, in 1663, entitled " A Century of the Names and Scantlings [outlines or hints] of such Inventions as at present I can call to mind to have ti ied and perfected ; which, my former notes being lost, I have, at the instance of a powerful friend,... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 842 pages
...Of 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...of a powerful friend, endeavoured now, in the year Ifi55, to set these down in such a way as may sufficiently instruct me to put any of them into practice."... | |
 | 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... | |
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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... 
