Automata Old and New

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Imprinted at the Chiswick Press, 1893 - 117 páginas

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Página 96 - A CENTURY OF THE NAMES AND SCANTLINGS OF SUCH INVENTIONS, as at present I can call to mind to have tried and perfected...
Página 29 - Water-works. shewing the easiest waies to raise water higher then the spring ; by which invention the perpetual motion is proposed, many hard labours performed and varieties of motions anu sounds produced.
Página 13 - Full twenty tripods for his hall he framed, That placed on living wheels of massy gold, (Wondrous to tell), instinct with spirit roll'd From place to place, around the blessed abodes Self-moved, obedient to the beck of Gods : For their fair handles now, o'erwrought with flowers, In moulds prepared the glowing ore he pours.
Página 104 - CLUBS," then delivered by Bro. BERNARD QUARITCH, Librarian. By Bro. WM THOMPSON, Historiographer. Presented to the Sette by His Oddship GEORGE CLULOW. Edition limited to 255 copies. 16. Codex Chiromantiae.
Página 103 - April 17th, 1885, &c. (pp. 56.) Presented to the Sette by His Oddship JAMES ROBERTS BROWN. Edition limited to 133 copies. 9. Catalogue of Works of Art Exhibited at the Freemasons' Tavern, Great Queen Street, on Friday, July nth, 1884.
Página 49 - ... into the ear thereof, it will presently open its mouth, and resolve the question in French, Latin, Welsh, Irish, or English, in good terms, uttering it out of his mouth, and then shut it until the next question be asked.
Página 104 - DISCOURSE CONCERNING AUTOGRAPHS AND THEIR SIGNIFICATIONS. Spoken in valediction at Willis's Rooms, on October the 8th, 1886, by Bro. EDWARD HERON-ALLEN, (pp. 45.) Presented to the Sette by His Oddship GEORGE CLULOW. Edition limited to 133 copies.
Página 96 - It gives me wonder great as my content, To see you here before me. O my soul's joy ! If after every tempest come such calms, May the winds blow till they have waken'd...
Página 49 - He also quoted some evidence in support of the view that the disease occurred at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth century in Germany and more definite evidence that it occurred in Upper Italy and Hungary in 1890.
Página 99 - With a few Words on the Philanthropic Publisher of St. Paul's Churchyard. A Paper read at a Meeting of the Sette of Odd Volumes by Brother CHARLES WELSH, Chapman of the Sette, at the Freemasons' Tavern, on Friday, the 8th day of January, 12.

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