 | Royal Scottish Society of Arts - Industrial arts - 1891 - 632 pages
...he had plenty of leisure for quiet meditation. After the Restoration, he published his great work, " A Century of the Names and Scantlings of such Inventions...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 down in such... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 842 pages
...steam-engine. 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...and perfected, which (my former notes being lost) I have, at the instance of a powerful friend, endeavoured now, in the year Ifi55, to set these down... | |
 | 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 former notes being lost) I have, at the instance of a powerful friend, endeavoured now, 1665, to set these down in such a way... | |
 | American periodicals - 1851 - 604 pages
...steam-engine. 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...and perfected, which (my former notes being lost) I have, at the instance of a powerful friend, endeavored now, in the year 1655, to set these down in... | |
 | 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 former notes being lost) I have, at the instance of a powerful friend, endeavoured now, 1665, to set these down in such a way... | |
 | Robert Scott Burn - Technology & Engineering - 1854 - 214 pages
...Worcester, a nobleman who bad undergone many changes of fortune in the civil wars of England, published a work entitled " A Century of the Names and Scantlings...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 down in such... | |
 | 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...and Perfected, which (my former Notes being lost) I have, at the instance of a powerful Friend, endeavoured no\v, in the Year 1655, to set these down... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - Authors, English - 1854 - 334 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...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... | |
 | Thomas Osmond Summers - Steam-engines - 1856 - 200 pages
...which he was not released till the restoration of the monarchy. In 1663, he published a work called " A century of the names and scantlings of such inventions...and perfected, which (my former notes being lost) I have, at the instance of a powerful friend, endeavored, now in the year 1655, to set down in such... | |
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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... 
