A Biographical Memoir of Samuel Hartlib, Milton's Familiar Friend: With Bibliographical Notices of Works Published by Him ; and a Reprint of His Pamphlet, Entitled "An Invention of Engines of Motion"John Russel Smith, 1865 - 124 pages |
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Page 8 - Idea, which hath long in silence presented itself to me, of a better education, in extent and comprehension far more large, and yet of time far shorter, and of attainment far more certain, than hath been yet in practice.
Page 73 - There is no resisting her enthusiasm, which appears even in the title of the tract : •THE REFORMED VIRGINIAN SILKWORM or a rare and New Discovery of A speedy way, and easie means found out by a young lady in England, she having made full proof thereof in May Anno 1652...
Page 54 - Printed for Nathaniel Butter, and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls Church-yard at the signe of the Pide Bull neere Sf.
Page 77 - A Discoverie for Division or Setting out of Land, as to the best Form.
Page 7 - Not to mention the learned correspondence which you hold in foreign parts, and the extraordinary pains and diligence which you have used in this matter both here, and beyond the Seas ; either by the definite will of God so ruling, or the peculiar sway of nature, which also is God's working.
Page 67 - The Reformed Husband-Man; Or, a Brief Treatise Of the Errors, Defects, and Inconveniences of our English Husbandry, in ploughing and sowing for Corn...
Page 84 - Silk-Worm, or, a Rare and New Discovery of a speedy way, and easie means, found out by a young Lady in England, she having made full proof thereof in May, Anno 1652.
Page 52 - A Reformation of Schooles, designed in two excellent Treatises: the first whereof summarily sheweth the great necessity of a generall Reformation of Common Learning, what grounds of hope there are for such a Reformation, how it may be brought to passe. The second answers certaine objections ordinarily made against such undertakings, arid 176 describes the severall parts and titles of workes which are shortly to follow.
Page 7 - I see those aims, those actions which have won you with me the esteem of a person sent hither by some good providence from a far country to be the occasion and the incitement of great good to this Island.
Page 3 - His family, indeed, was of a very ancient extraction in the German empire, there having been ten brothers of the name of Hartlib. Some of them were privy-counsellors to the emperor, some to other inferior princes ; some syndics of Ausperg and Norimberg.