| Books - 1774 - 690 pages
...cxpreflcs himfelf as to this publication. * Having the pleafure (he fays) to find that this .my fir. ft work was not ill received, I was emboldened to go on in. jwblifhing my Aftronomy, Mechanical Lectures, Tables and Trafts relative to feveral arts and fciences,... | |
| Several Hands - 1774 - 622 pages
...expreíTcs himfclf as to this publication. * Having the pleafure (he fays) to find that this my firft work was not ill received, I was emboldened to go on in pübliihing my Aftronomy, Mechanical Lectures, Tables and Trans relative to feveral arts and fciences,... | |
| English literature - 1806 - 1016 pages
...я gram grammatical education, nor time to stuoy the rules of just composition, I ackuowledge that 1 was afraid to put it to the press; and, for the same cause, 1 ought to have the same fears still. Cut fcavmg the pleasure to find that this my first work was not... | |
| Autobiographies - 1830 - 312 pages
...wheels. But having never had grammatical education, nor time to study the rules of just composition, I acknowledge that I was afraid to put it to the press...fears still. But having the pleasure to find that " Select Mechanical Exercises," my first work, was not ill received, I was emboldened to go on, in... | |
| George Whitefield - 1830 - 314 pages
...wheels. But having never had grammatical education, nor time to study the rules of just composition, I acknowledge that I was afraid to put it to the press...fears still. But having the pleasure to find that "Select Mechanical Exercises," my first work, was not ill received, I was emboldened to go on, in publishing... | |
| George Lillie Craik - Education - 1830 - 452 pages
...modesty, " Having never had a grammatical education, nor time to study the rules of just composition, I acknowledge that I was afraid to put it to the press...same cause, I ought to have the same fears still." It was, however, well received by the public ; and its ingenious author afterwards followed it up by... | |
| George Lillie Craik - Knowledge, Theory of - 1830 - 464 pages
...modesty, " Having never had a grammatical education, nor time to study the rules of just composition, I acknowledge that I was afraid to put it to the press;...same cause I ought to have the same fears still." It was, however, well received by the public; and its ingenious author afterwards followed it up by... | |
| Art - 1834 - 602 pages
...Wheels. This work was very favourably received by the public ; though the author modestly says of it, — "Having never had a grammatical education, nor time...same cause, I ought to have the same fears still." In 174S, he began to give lectures on astronomy and mechanics, and with such success, that he at length... | |
| Henry Howe - Industrial arts - 1840 - 492 pages
...modesty, " Having never had a grammatical education, nor time to study the rules of just composition, I acknowledge that I was afraid to put it to the press...same cause, I ought to have the same fears still." It was, however, well received by the public ; and its ingenious author afterwards followed it up by... | |
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