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A catalogue of the royal and noble authors of England, with lists of their works ... / [Anon].

  • Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Date:
1759
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A catalogue of the royal and noble authors of England, with lists of their works ... / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Sovereignty. This patent the Marquis after the Reftoration gave up to the Houfe of Peers. He did not long furvive that AXra, dying in 1667» after he had publifhed the following amazing piece of folly, “* A century of the names and fcantlings of ‘< fuch inventions as at prefent I can call tomind «© to have tried and perfected, [my former notes. “¢ being loft] &c.” Firft printed in the year 1663, and ré-printed in 1746. tis a very fimall piece, containing a dedication to Charles the Second; another to both houfes of Parliament, in which he affirms having, in the prefence of Charles the Firft, performed ‘many ‘of the feats mentioned in his book; a table of ‘contents,. and the work itfelf, which is but a table of con. tents neither, being a lift of an hundred projects, moft of them impoffibilitiés, but all of which he affirms having difcovered ‘the art of performing, Some of the eafieft feem to be, how to write with a fingle line; with a point; how to ufe all the Senfes indifferently for each ‘other, ‘as, to talk’ by colours, and to read by the afte ;- to make an unfinkable fhip ; how to do and to prevent the